Psalms 74:1
An instruction: of Asaph. Why, O God, hast thou cast off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
Psalms 74:2
Remember thine assembly, which thou hast purchased of old, which thou hast redeemed to be the portion of thine inheritance, this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
Psalms 74:3
Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.
Psalms 74:4
Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs for signs.
Psalms 74:5
A man was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees;
Psalms 74:6
And now they break down its carved work altogether, with hatchets and hammers.
Psalms 74:7
They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitation of thy name to the ground.
Psalms 74:8
They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all *God's places of assembly in the land.
Psalms 74:9
We see not our signs; there is no more any prophet, neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
Psalms 74:10
How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy contemn thy name for ever?
Psalms 74:11
Why withdrawest thou thy hand, and thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom: consume them .
Psalms 74:12
But God is my king of old, accomplishing deliverances in the midst of the earth.
Psalms 74:13
*Thou* didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst break the heads of the monsters on the waters:
Psalms 74:14
*Thou* didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert.
Psalms 74:15
*Thou* didst cleave fountain and torrent, *thou* driedst up ever-flowing rivers.
Psalms 74:16
The day is thine, the night also is thine; *thou* hast prepared the moon and the sun:
Psalms 74:17
*Thou* hast set all the borders of the earth; summer and winter--*thou* didst form them.
Psalms 74:18
Remember this, that an enemy hath reproached Jehovah, and a foolish people have contemned thy name.
Psalms 74:19
Give not up the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the troop of thine afflicted for ever.
Psalms 74:20
Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence.
Psalms 74:21
Oh let not the oppressed one return ashamed; let the afflicted and needy praise thy name.
Psalms 74:22
Rise up, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day;
Psalms 74:23
Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: the tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually.