Psalms 74:1
O God, why have you cast us off for ever? why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
Psalms 74:2
Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old; the rod of your inheritance, which you have redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein you have dwelled.
Psalms 74:3
Lift up your feet to the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary.
Psalms 74:4
Your enemies roar in the middle of your congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
Psalms 74:5
A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes on the thick trees.
Psalms 74:6
But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
Psalms 74:7
They have cast fire into your sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of your name to the ground.
Psalms 74:8
They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
Psalms 74:9
We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knows how long.
Psalms 74:10
O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme your name for ever?
Psalms 74:11
Why withdraw you your hand, even your right hand? pluck it out of your bosom.
Psalms 74:12
For God is my King of old, working salvation in the middle of the earth.
Psalms 74:13
You did divide the sea by your strength: you brake the heads of the dragons in the waters.
Psalms 74:14
You brake the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gave him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Psalms 74:15
You did split the fountain and the flood: you dried up mighty rivers.
Psalms 74:16
The day is yours, the night also is yours: you have prepared the light and the sun.
Psalms 74:17
You have set all the borders of the earth: you have made summer and winter.
Psalms 74:18
Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed your name.
Psalms 74:19
O deliver not the soul of your turtledove to the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of your poor for ever.
Psalms 74:20
Have respect to the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
Psalms 74:21
O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise your name.
Psalms 74:22
Arise, O God, plead your own cause: remember how the foolish man reproaches you daily.
Psalms 74:23
Forget not the voice of your enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against you increases continually.