Psalms 74

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1. 1O God, why have you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
2. 2Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old — the rod of your inheritance, which you redeemed — this Mount Zion, where you have dwelt.
3. 3Lift up your feet to the perpetual desolations — all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary.
4. 4Your enemies roar in the midst of your meeting places; they set up their banners for signs.
5. 5A man was famous as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
6. 6But now they break down its carved work at once with axes and hammers.
7. 7They have cast fire into your sanctuary; they have defiled the dwelling place of your name by casting it down to the ground.
8. 8They said in their hearts, 'Let us destroy them together.' They have burned up all the meeting places of God in the land.
9. 9We do not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet, and there is none among us who knows how long.
10. 10O God, how long will the adversary reproach? Will the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
11. 11Why do you withdraw your hand, even your right hand? Pluck it out of your bosom.
12. 12For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
13. 13You divided the sea by your strength; you broke the heads of the dragons in the waters.
14. 14You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces, and gave him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
15. 15You split the fountain and the flood; you dried up mighty rivers.
16. 16The day is yours, the night also is yours; you have prepared the light and the sun.
17. 17You have set all the borders of the earth; you have made summer and winter.
18. 18Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed your name.
19. 19Do not deliver the soul of your turtledove to the multitude of the wicked; do not forget the congregation of your poor forever.
20. 20Have respect to the covenant, for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
21. 21O let not the oppressed return ashamed; let the poor and needy praise your name.
22. 22Arise, O God, plead your own cause; remember how the foolish man reproaches you daily.
23. 23Do not forget the voice of your enemies; the tumult of those who rise up against you increases continually.