Psalms 74

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 A maskil of Asaph. I Why, God, have you cast us off forever? Why does your anger burn against the sheep of your pasture?	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?
2 Remember your flock that you gathered of old, the tribe you redeemed as your very own. Remember Mount Zion where you dwell.	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.
3 Turn your steps toward the utter ruins, toward the sanctuary devastated by the enemy.	3 Lift up thy hands against their pride unto the end; see what things the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
4 Your foes roared triumphantly in your shrine; they set up their own tokens of victory.	4 And they that hate thee have made their boasts, in the midst of thy solemnity. They have set up their ensigns for signs,
5 They hacked away like foresters gathering boughs, swinging their axes in a thicket of trees.	5 and they knew not both in the going out and on the highest top. As with axes in a wood of trees,
6 They smashed all your engraved work, pounded it with hammer and pick.	6 they have cut down at once the gates thereof, with axe and hatchet they have brought it down.
7 They set your sanctuary on fire; the abode of your name they razed and profaned.	7 They have set fire to thy sanctuary: they have defiled the dwelling place of thy name on the earth.
8 They said in their hearts, "Destroy them all! Burn all the shrines of God in the land!"	8 They said in their heart, the whole kindred of them together: Let us abolish all the festival days of God from the land.
9 Now we see no signs, we have no prophets, no one who knows how long.	9 Our signs we have not seen, there is now no prophet: and he will know us no more.
10 How long, O God, shall the enemy jeer? Shall the foe revile your name forever?	10 How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach: is the adversary to provoke thy name for ever?
11 Why draw back your right hand, why keep it idle beneath your cloak?	11 Why dost thou turn away thy hand: and thy right hand out of the midst of thy bosom for ever ?
12 Yet you, God, are my king from of old, winning victories throughout the earth.	12 But God is our king before ages: he hath wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.
13 You stirred up the sea in your might; you smashed the heads of the dragons on the waters.	13 Thou by thy strength didst make the sea firm: thou didst crush the heads of the dragons in the waters.
14 You crushed the heads of Leviathan, tossed him for food to the sharks.	14 Thou hast broken the heads of the dragon: thou hast given him to be meat for the people of the Ethiopians.
15 You opened up springs and torrents, brought dry land out of the primeval waters.	15 Thou hast broken up the fountains and the torrents: thou hast dried up the Ethan rivers.
16 Yours the day and yours the night; you set the moon and sun in place.	16 Thine is the day, and thine is the night: thou hast made the morning light and the sun.
17 You fixed all the limits of the earth; summer and winter you made.	17 Thou hast made all the borders of the earth: the summer and the spring were formed by thee.
18 Remember how the enemy has jeered, O LORD, how a foolish people has reviled your name.	18 Remember this, the enemy hath reproached the Lord: and a foolish people hath provoked thy name.
19 Do not surrender to beasts those who praise you; do not forget forever the life of your afflicted.	19 Deliver not up to beasts the souls that confess to thee: and forget not to the end the souls of thy poor.
20 Look to your covenant, for the land is filled with gloom; the pastures, with violence.	20 Have regard to thy covenant: for they that are the obscure of the earth have been filled with dwellings of iniquity.
21 Let not the oppressed turn back in shame; may the poor and needy praise your name.	21 Let not the humble be turned away with confusion: the poor and needy shall praise thy name.
22 Arise, God, defend your cause; remember the constant jeers of the fools.	22 Arise, O God, judge thy own cause: remember thy reproaches with which the foolish man hath reproached thee all the day.
23 Do not ignore the clamor of your foes, the unceasing uproar of your enemies.	23 Forget not the voices of thy enemies: the pride of them that hate thee ascendeth continually.