Thematic Bible

Psalm 74:1

O God, why do you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?

Psalm 74:2

Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage! Remember Mount Zion, where you have dwelt.

Psalm 74:3

Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!
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Psalm 74:4

Your foes have roared in the midst of your meeting place; they set up their own signs for signs.
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Psalm 74:5

They were like those who swing axes in a forest of trees.

Psalm 74:6

And all its carved wood they broke down with hatchets and hammers.

Psalm 74:7

They set your sanctuary on fire; they profaned the dwelling place of your name, bringing it down to the ground.

Psalm 74:8

They said to themselves, "We will utterly subdue them"; they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

Psalm 74:9

We do not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet, and there is none among us who knows how long.

Psalm 74:10

How long, O God, is the foe to scoff? Is the enemy to revile your name forever?

Psalm 74:11

Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand? Take it from the fold of your garment and destroy them!

Psalm 74:12

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

Psalm 74:13

You divided the sea by your might; you broke the heads of the sea monsters on the waters.

Psalm 74:14

You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

Psalm 74:15

You split open springs and brooks; you dried up ever-flowing streams.

Psalm 74:16

Yours is the day, yours also the night; you have established the heavenly lights and the sun.

Psalm 74:17

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

Psalm 74:18

Remember this, O LORD, how the enemy scoffs, and a foolish people reviles your name.

Psalm 74:19

Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild beasts; do not forget the life of your poor forever.

Psalm 74:20

Have regard for the covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.

Psalm 74:21

Let not the downtrodden turn back in shame; let the poor and needy praise your name.

Psalm 74:22

Arise, O God, defend your cause; remember how the foolish scoff at you all the day!

Psalm 74:23

Do not forget the clamor of your foes, the uproar of those who rise against you, which goes up continually!