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Psalm 74:1 (show verse)

([Psalm of Asaph]) God, why have you rejected us forever? Why do you smoke with anger against the sheep of your pasture?

Psalm 74:2 (show verse)

Remember your congregation, which you purchased long ago. For you have redeemed it to be the tribe of your inheritance, Mount Zion, in which you have lived.

Psalm 74:3 (show verse)

Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
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Psalm 74:4 (show verse)

Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.
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Psalm 74:5 (show verse)

They behaved like men wielding axes cutting through a thicket of trees.

Psalm 74:6 (show verse)

They strike down all its carved work with hatchet and hammers.

Psalm 74:7 (show verse)

They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling-place of your name.

Psalm 74:8 (show verse)

They said in their hearts: We will destroy them completely. They burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

Psalm 74:9 (show verse)

We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet. There is no one who knows how long.

Psalm 74:10 (show verse)

How long, God, will the adversary reproach? Will the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

Psalm 74:11 (show verse)

Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it out of your pocket and consume them!

Psalm 74:12 (show verse)

Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the middle of the earth.

Psalm 74:13 (show verse)

You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters (Egypt's Army) in the waters.

Psalm 74:14 (show verse)

You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.

Psalm 74:15 (show verse)

You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.

Psalm 74:16 (show verse)

The day and the night are yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.

Psalm 74:17 (show verse)

You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.

Psalm 74:18 (show verse)

Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Jehovah. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.

Psalm 74:19 (show verse)

Do not deliver your turtledove (endeared) to wild beasts. Do not forget the life of your poor forever.

Psalm 74:20 (show verse)

Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.

Psalm 74:21 (show verse)

Do not let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.

Psalm 74:22 (show verse)

Arise, O God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man treats you with contempt all day.

Psalm 74:23 (show verse)

Do not forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.