Psalms 74

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
1 O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke 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 purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein 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 feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.	3 Come up to these endless ruins! The enemy have sacked everything in the sanctuary;
4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they 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 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.	5 never known before. Their axes deep in the wood,
6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.	6 hacking at the panels, they battered them down with axe and pick;
7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.	7 they set fire to your sanctuary, profanely rased to the ground the dwel ing-place of your name.
8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.	8 They said to themselves, 'Let us crush them at one stroke!' They burned down every sacred shrine inthe land.
9 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.	9 We see no signs, no prophet any more, and none of us knows how long it wil last.
10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?	10 How much longer, God, will the enemy blaspheme? Is the enemy to insult your name for ever?
11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.	11 Why hold back your hand, keep your right hand hidden in the folds of your robe?
12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.	12 Yet, God, my king from the first, author of saving acts throughout the earth,
13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest 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 brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.	14 You crushed Leviathan's heads, gave him as food to the wild animals.
15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.	15 You released the springs and brooks, and turned primordial rivers into dry land.
16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.	16 Yours is the day and yours the night, you caused sun and light to exist,
17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.	17 you fixed all the boundaries of the earth, you created summer and winter.
18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.	18 Remember, Yahweh, the enemy's blasphemy, a foolish people insults your name.
19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.	19 Do not surrender your turtledove to the beast; do not forget for ever the life of your oppressed people.
20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.	20 Look to the covenant! Al the hiding-places of the land are ful , haunts of violence.
21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy 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, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.	22 Arise, God, champion your own cause, remember how fools blaspheme you all day long!
23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.	23 Do not forget the shouting of your enemies, the ever-mounting uproar of your adversaries.