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Psalms 74
- 1 A Maskil of Asaph. Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
- 2 Remember Your congregation, which You purchased long ago and redeemed as the tribe of Your inheritance—Mount Zion, where You dwell.
- 3 Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed.
- 4 Your foes have roared within Your meeting place; they have unfurled their banners as signs,
- 5 like men wielding axes in a thicket of trees
- 6 and smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks.
- 7 They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; they have defiled the dwelling place of Your Name.
- 8 They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely.” They burned down every place where God met us in the land.
- 9 There are no signs for us to see. There is no longer any prophet. And none of us knows how long this will last.
- 10 How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?
- 11 Why do You withdraw Your strong right hand? Stretch it out to destroy them!
- 12 Yet God is my King from ancient times, working salvation on the earth.
- 13 You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;
- 14 You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.
- 15 You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.
- 16 The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.
- 17 You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made the summer and winter.
- 18 Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O Yahweh, how a foolish people has spurned Your name. BSB transformation LORD -> Yahweh Before Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name. After Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O Yahweh, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.
- 19 Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever.
- 20 Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
- 21 Do not let the oppressed retreat in shame; may the poor and needy praise Your name.
- 22 Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long.
- 23 Do not disregard the clamor of Your adversaries, the uproar of Your enemies that ascends continually.