Psalm 74

1. 1

   O God, why have you utterly cast us off? *
   why is your wrath so hot against the sheep of your pasture?

2. 2

   Remember your congregation that you purchased long ago, *
   the tribe you redeemed to be your inheritance, and Mount Zion where you dwell.

3. 3

   Turn your steps toward the endless ruins; *
   the enemy has laid waste everything in your sanctuary.

4. 4

   Your adversaries roared in your holy place; *
   they set up their banners as tokens of victory.

5. 5

   They were like men coming up with axes to a grove of trees; *
   they broke down all your carved work with hatchets and hammers.

6. 6

   They set fire to your holy place; *
   they defiled the dwelling-place of your Name and razed it to the ground.

7. 7

   They said to themselves, "Let us destroy them altogether." *
   They burned down all the meeting-places of God in the land.

8. 8

   There are no signs for us to see; there is no prophet left; *
   there is not one among us who knows how long.

9. 9

   How long, O God, will the adversary scoff? *
   will the enemy blaspheme your Name for ever?

10. 10

    Why do you draw back your hand? *
    why is your right hand hidden in your bosom?

11. 11

    Yet God is my King from ancient times, *
    victorious in the midst of the earth.

12. 12

    You divided the sea by your might *
    and shattered the heads of the dragons upon the waters;

13. 13

    You crushed the heads of Leviathan *
    and gave him to the people of the desert for food.

14. 14

    You split open spring and torrent; *
    you dried up ever-flowing rivers.

15. 15

    Yours is the day, yours also the night; *
    you established the moon and the sun.

16. 16

    You fixed all the boundaries of the earth; *
    you made both summer and winter.

17. 17

    Remember, O LORD, how the enemy scoffed, *
    how a foolish people despised your Name.

18. 18

    Do not hand over the life of your dove to wild beasts; *
    never forget the lives of your poor.

19. 19

    Look upon your covenant; *
    the dark places of the earth are haunts of violence.

20. 20

    Let not the oppressed turn away ashamed; *
    let the poor and needy praise your Name.

21. 21

    Arise, O God, maintain your cause; *
    remember how fools revile you all day long.

22. 22

    Forget not the clamor of your adversaries, *
    the unending tumult of those who rise up against you.

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