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.