| 74 | Psalms | ||
| 1 | O God, why do you cast us off for ever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture? | National Lament over a Devastated Land. Psalm 74(v73) | |
| 2 | Remember your congregation, which you have gotten of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage! Remember Mount Zion, where you have dwelt. | ||
| 3 | Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary! | ||
| 4 | Your foes have roared in the midst of your holy place; they set up their own signs for signs. | ||
| 5 | At the upper entrance they hacked the wooden trellis with axes. | ||
| 6 | And then all its carved wood they broke down with hatchets and hammers. | ||
| 7 | They set your sanctuary on fire; to the ground they desecrated the dwelling place of your name. | ||
| 8 | They said to themselves, "We will utterly subdue them"; they burned all the meeting places of God in the land. | ||
| 9 | We do not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet, and there is none among us who knows how long. | ||
| 10 | How long, O God, is the foe to scoff? Is the enemy to revile your name for ever? | ||
| 11 | Why do you hold back your hand, why do you keep your right hand in your bosom? | ||
| 12 | Yet God my King is from of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. | ||
| 13 | You divided the sea by your might; you broke the heads of the dragons on the waters. | ||
| 14 | You crushed the heads of Leviathan, you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness. | ||
| 15 | You clove open springs and brooks; you dried up ever-flowing streams. | ||
| 16 | Yours is the day, yours also the night; you have established the luminaries and the sun. | ||
| 17 | You have fixed all the bounds of the earth; you have made summer and winter. | ||
| 18 | Remember this, O Yahweh, how the enemy scoffs, and an impious people reviles your name. | ||
| 19 | Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild beasts; do not forget the life of your poor for ever. | ||
| 20 | Have regard for your covenant; for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence. | ||
| 21 | Let not the downtrodden be put to shame; let the poor and needy praise your name. | ||
| 22 | Arise, O God, plead your cause; remember how the impious scoff at you all the day! | ||
| 23 | Do not forget the clamour of your foes, the uproar of your adversaries which goes up continually! | ||
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