Psalms 74

DOUAI-RHEIMS	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Understanding for Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off unto the end: why is thy wrath enkindled against the sheep of thy pasture?	1 [Poem Of Asaph] God, why have you final y rejected us, your anger blazing against the flock you usedto pasture?
2 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast possessed from the beginning. The sceptre of thy inheritance which thou hast redeemed: mount Sion in which thou hast dwelt.	2 Remember the people you took to yourself long ago, your own tribe which you redeemed, and thisMount Zion where you came to live.
3 Lift up thy hands against their pride unto the end; see what things the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.	3 Come up to these endless ruins! The enemy have sacked everything in the sanctuary;
4 And they that hate thee have made their boasts, in the midst of thy solemnity. They have set up their ensigns for signs,	4 your opponents made uproar in the place of assemblies, they fixed their emblems over the entrance,emblems
5 and they knew not both in the going out and on the highest top. As with axes in a wood of trees,	5 never known before. Their axes deep in the wood,
6 they have cut down at once the gates thereof, with axe and hatchet they have brought it down.	6 hacking at the panels, they battered them down with axe and pick;
7 They have set fire to thy sanctuary: they have defiled the dwelling place of thy name on the earth.	7 they set fire to your sanctuary, profanely rased to the ground the dwel ing-place of your name.
8 They said in their heart, the whole kindred of them together: Let us abolish all the festival days of God from the land.	8 They said to themselves, 'Let us crush them at one stroke!' They burned down every sacred shrine inthe land.
9 Our signs we have not seen, there is now no prophet: and he will know us no more.	9 We see no signs, no prophet any more, and none of us knows how long it wil last.
10 How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach: is the adversary to provoke thy name for ever?	10 How much longer, God, will the enemy blaspheme? Is the enemy to insult your name for ever?
11 Why dost thou turn away thy hand: and thy right hand out of the midst of thy bosom for ever ?	11 Why hold back your hand, keep your right hand hidden in the folds of your robe?
12 But God is our king before ages: he hath wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.	12 Yet, God, my king from the first, author of saving acts throughout the earth,
13 Thou by thy strength didst make the sea firm: thou didst crush the heads of the dragons in the waters.	13 by your power you split the sea in two, and smashed the heads of the monsters on the waters.
14 Thou hast broken the heads of the dragon: thou hast given him to be meat for the people of the Ethiopians.	14 You crushed Leviathan's heads, gave him as food to the wild animals.
15 Thou hast broken up the fountains and the torrents: thou hast dried up the Ethan rivers.	15 You released the springs and brooks, and turned primordial rivers into dry land.
16 Thine is the day, and thine is the night: thou hast made the morning light and the sun.	16 Yours is the day and yours the night, you caused sun and light to exist,
17 Thou hast made all the borders of the earth: the summer and the spring were formed by thee.	17 you fixed all the boundaries of the earth, you created summer and winter.
18 Remember this, the enemy hath reproached the Lord: and a foolish people hath provoked thy name.	18 Remember, Yahweh, the enemy's blasphemy, a foolish people insults your name.
19 Deliver not up to beasts the souls that confess to thee: and forget not to the end the souls of thy poor.	19 Do not surrender your turtledove to the beast; do not forget for ever the life of your oppressed people.
20 Have regard to thy covenant: for they that are the obscure of the earth have been filled with dwellings of iniquity.	20 Look to the covenant! Al the hiding-places of the land are ful , haunts of violence.
21 Let not the humble be turned away with confusion: the poor and needy shall praise thy name.	21 Do not let the downtrodden retreat in confusion, give the poor and needy cause to praise your name.
22 Arise, O God, judge thy own cause: remember thy reproaches with which the foolish man hath reproached thee all the day.	22 Arise, God, champion your own cause, remember how fools blaspheme you all day long!
23 Forget not the voices of thy enemies: the pride of them that hate thee ascendeth continually.	23 Do not forget the shouting of your enemies, the ever-mounting uproar of your adversaries.