Psalm 74

¹O God, why hast thou cast usoff for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

²Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old, which thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of thine inheritance; andmount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

³Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.

⁴Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine assembly; they have set up their ensigns for signs.

⁵They seemed as men that lifted up axes upon a thicket of trees.

⁶And now all the carved work thereof together they break down with hatchet and hammers.

⁷They have set thy sanctuary on fire; they have profaned the dwelling place of thy name even to the ground.

⁸They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

⁹We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet; neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

¹⁰How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

¹¹Why drawest thou back thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck itout of thy bosom andconsume them.

¹²Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

¹³Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

¹⁴Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, thou gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

¹⁵Thou didst cleave fountain and flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.

¹⁶The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

¹⁷Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.

¹⁸Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

¹⁹O deliver not the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast: forget not the life of thy poor for ever.

²⁰Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.

²¹O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

²²Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day.

²³Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: the tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually.