Ps 74
0 Psalm 74 Maschil of Asaph.
1
O God, why have you cast [us] off for ever? Why does your anger smoke against the
sheep of your pasture?
2
Remember your congregation, which you have gotten of old, Which you have redeemed
to be the tribe of your inheritance; [And] mount Zion, wherein you have dwelt.
3
Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, All the evil that the enemy has done in
the sanctuary.
4
Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly; They have set up their
ensigns for signs.
5
They seemed as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket of trees.
6
And now all the carved work thereof They break down with hatchet and hammers.
7
They have set your sanctuary on fire; They have profaned the dwelling-place of your
name [by casting it] to the ground.
8
They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether: They have burned
up all the synagogues of God in the land.
9
We see not our signs: There is no more any prophet; Neither is there among us any
that knows how long.
10
How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name
for ever?
11
Why draw you back your hand, even your right hand? [Pluck it] out of your bosom [and]
consume [them].
12
Yet God is my King of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth.
13
You did divide the sea by your strength: You break the heads of the sea-monsters in
the waters.
14
You break the heads of leviathan in pieces; You gave him to be food to the people
inhabiting the wilderness.
15
You did cleave fountain and flood: You dried up mighty rivers.
16
The day is yours, the night also is yours: You have prepared the light and the sun.
17
You have set all the borders of the earth: You have made summer and winter.
18
Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O YHWH, And that a foolish people has
blasphemed your name.
19
Oh deliver not the soul of your turtle-dove to the wild beast: Forget not the
life of your poor for ever.
20
Have respect to the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations
of violence.
21
Oh let not the oppressed return ashamed: Let the poor and needy praise your name.
22
Arise, O God, plead your own cause: Remember how the foolish man reproaches you all
the day.
23
Forget not the voice of your adversaries: The tumult of those that rise up against
you ascends continually.