Psalms 74:1
O God, why have thou cast off forever? Why does thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
Psalms 74:2
Remember thy congregation, which thou have gotten of old, which thou have redeemed to be the tribe of thine inheritance, and mount Zion, at which thou have dwelt.
Psalms 74:3
Lift up thy feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
Psalms 74:4
Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine assembly. They have set up their ensigns for signs.
Psalms 74:5
They seemed as men who lifted up axes upon a thicket of trees.
Psalms 74:6
And now they break down all the carved work of it with hatchet and hammers.
Psalms 74:7
They have set thy sanctuary on fire. They have profaned the dwelling-place of thy name to the ground.
Psalms 74:8
They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether. They have burned up all the meeting-places of God in the land.
Psalms 74:9
We do not see our signs. There is no more any prophet, nor is there among us he who knows how long.
Psalms 74:10
How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name forever?
Psalms 74:11
Why do thou draw back thy hand, even thy right hand? Remove it from the midst of thy bosom.
Psalms 74:12
Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
Psalms 74:13
Thou divided the sea by thy strength. Thou break the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.
Psalms 74:14
Thou break the heads of leviathan in pieces. Thou gave him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Psalms 74:15
Thou split fountain and flood. Thou dried up mighty rivers.
Psalms 74:16
The day is thine; the night is also thine. Thou have prepared the light and the sun.
Psalms 74:17
Thou have set all the borders of the earth. Thou have made summer and winter.
Psalms 74:18
Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O Jehovah, and that a foolish people has blasphemed thy name.
Psalms 74:19
O deliver not the soul of thy turtle-dove to the wild beast. Forget not the life of thy poor forever.
Psalms 74:20
Have respect to the covenant, for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.
Psalms 74:21
O let not he who is oppressed return ashamed. Let a poor and needy man praise thy name.
Psalms 74:22
Arise, O God, plead thine own cause. Remember how the foolish man reproaches thee all the day.
Psalms 74:23
Forget not the voice of thine adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against thee ascends continually.