Psalms 74

DOUAI-RHEIMS	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
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 Unto the end. May you not be corrupted. A Canticle Psalm of Asaph.
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 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 hands against their pride unto the end; see what things the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.	3 While I have time, I will judge justices.
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 The earth has been dissolved, with all who dwell in it. I have confirmed its pillars.
5 and they knew not both in the going out and on the highest top. As with axes in a wood of trees,	5 I said to the iniquitous: “Do not act unjustly,” and to the offenders: “Do not exalt the horn.”
6 they have cut down at once the gates thereof, with axe and hatchet they have brought it down.	6 Do not exalt your horn on high. Do not speak iniquity against God.
7 They have set fire to thy sanctuary: they have defiled the dwelling place of thy name on the earth.	7 For it is neither from the east, nor from the west, nor before the desert mountains.
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 For God is judge. This one he humbles and that one he exalts.
9 Our signs we have not seen, there is now no prophet: and he will know us no more.	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 How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach: is the adversary to provoke thy name for ever?	10 But I will announce it in every age. I will sing to the God of Jacob.
11 Why dost thou turn away thy hand: and thy right hand out of the midst of thy bosom for ever ?	11 And I will break all the horns of sinners. And the horns of the just will be exalted.
12 But God is our king before ages: he hath wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.
13 Thou by thy strength didst make the sea firm: thou didst crush the heads of the dragons in the waters.
14 Thou hast broken the heads of the dragon: thou hast given him to be meat for the people of the Ethiopians.
15 Thou hast broken up the fountains and the torrents: thou hast dried up the Ethan rivers.
16 Thine is the day, and thine is the night: thou hast made the morning light and the sun.
17 Thou hast made all the borders of the earth: the summer and the spring were formed by thee.
18 Remember this, the enemy hath reproached the Lord: and a foolish people hath provoked thy name.
19 Deliver not up to beasts the souls that confess to thee: and forget not to the end the souls of thy poor.
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 humble be turned away with confusion: the poor and needy shall praise thy name.
22 Arise, O God, judge thy own cause: remember thy reproaches with which the foolish man hath reproached thee all the day.
23 Forget not the voices of thy enemies: the pride of them that hate thee ascendeth continually.