Psalms 74 : 1 (ESV)
A MASKIL OF ASAPH.O God, why do you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
Psalms 74 : 2 (ESV)
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.
Psalms 74 : 3 (ESV)
Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!
Psalms 74 : 4 (ESV)
Your foes have roared in the midst of your meeting place; they set up their own signs for signs.
Psalms 74 : 5 (ESV)
They were like those who swing axes in a forest of trees.
Psalms 74 : 6 (ESV)
And all its carved wood they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
Psalms 74 : 7 (ESV)
They set your sanctuary on fire; they profaned the dwelling place of your name, bringing it down to the ground.
Psalms 74 : 8 (ESV)
They said to themselves, "We will utterly subdue them"; they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
Psalms 74 : 9 (ESV)
We do not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet, and there is none among us who knows how long.
Psalms 74 : 10 (ESV)
How long, O God, is the foe to scoff? Is the enemy to revile your name forever?
Psalms 74 : 11 (ESV)
Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand? Take it from the fold of your garment and destroy them!
Psalms 74 : 12 (ESV)
Yet God my King is from of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
Psalms 74 : 13 (ESV)
You divided the sea by your might; you broke the heads of the sea monsters on the waters.
Psalms 74 : 14 (ESV)
You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
Psalms 74 : 15 (ESV)
You split open springs and brooks; you dried up ever-flowing streams.
Psalms 74 : 16 (ESV)
Yours is the day, yours also the night; you have established the heavenly lights and the sun.
Psalms 74 : 17 (ESV)
You have fixed all the boundaries of the earth; you have made summer and winter.
Psalms 74 : 18 (ESV)
Remember this, O LORD, how the enemy scoffs, and a foolish people reviles your name.
Psalms 74 : 19 (ESV)
Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild beasts; do not forget the life of your poor forever.
Psalms 74 : 20 (ESV)
Have regard for the covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
Psalms 74 : 21 (ESV)
Let not the downtrodden turn back in shame; let the poor and needy praise your name.
Psalms 74 : 22 (ESV)
Arise, O God, defend your cause; remember how the foolish scoff at you all the day!
Psalms 74 : 23 (ESV)
Do not forget the clamor of your foes, the uproar of those who rise against you, which goes up continually!
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