Psalms 74

KING JAMES BIBLE	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?	1 Unto the end. May you not be corrupted. A Canticle Psalm of Asaph.
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 We will confess to you, O God. We will confess, and we will call upon your name. We will describe your wonders.
3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.	3 While I have time, I will judge justices.
4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.	4 The earth has been dissolved, with all who dwell in it. I have confirmed its pillars.
5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.	5 I said to the iniquitous: “Do not act unjustly,” and to the offenders: “Do not exalt the horn.”
6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.	6 Do not exalt your horn on high. Do not speak iniquity against God.
7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.	7 For it is neither from the east, nor from the west, nor before the desert mountains.
8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.	8 For God is judge. This one he humbles and that one he exalts.
9 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.	9 For, in the hand of the Lord, there is a cup of undiluted wine, full of consternation. And he has tipped it from here to there. So, truly, its dregs have not been emptied. All the sinners of the earth will drink.
10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?	10 But I will announce it in every age. I will sing to the God of Jacob.
11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.	11 And I will break all the horns of sinners. And the horns of the just will be exalted.
12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy 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.
20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.