Psalms 74

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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.

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