Psalms 74 : 1 (LXXEN)
*Gr. understanding - Wherefore hast thou rejected us, O God, for ever? wherefore is thy wrath kindled against the sheep of thy pasture?
Psalms 74 : 2 (LXXEN)
Remember thy congregation which thou hast purchased from the beginning; thou didst ransom the rod of thine inheritance; this mount Sion wherein thou hast dwelt.
Psalms 74 : 3 (LXXEN)
Lift up thine hands against their pride continually; because of all that the enemy has done wickedly in thy holy places.
Psalms 74 : 4 (LXXEN)
And they that hate thee have boasted in the midst of thy feast; they have set up their standards for signs,
Psalms 74 : 5 (LXXEN)
ignorantly as it were in the entrance above;
Psalms 74 : 6 (LXXEN)
they cut down its doors at once with axes as in a wood of trees; they have broken it down with hatchet and stone cutter.
Psalms 74 : 7 (LXXEN)
They have burnt thy sanctuary with fire to the ground; they have profaned the *Gr. tabernacle habitation of thy name.
Psalms 74 : 8 (LXXEN)
They have said in their heart, even all their kindred together, Come, let us abolish the feasts of the Lord from the earth.
Psalms 74 : 9 (LXXEN)
We have not seen our signs; there is no longer a prophet; and God will not know us any more.
Psalms 74 : 10 (LXXEN)
How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach? shall the enemy provoke thy name forever?
Psalms 74 : 11 (LXXEN)
Wherefore turnest thou away thine hand, and thy right hand from the midst of thy bosom for ever?
Psalms 74 : 12 (LXXEN)
But God is our King *Gr. before the age of old; he has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.
Psalms 74 : 13 (LXXEN)
Thou didst establish the sea, in thy might, thou didst break to pieces the heads of the *Or, serpents dragons in the water.
Psalms 74 : 14 (LXXEN)
Thou didst break to pieces the heads of the dragon; thou didst give him for meat to the Ethiopian nations.
Psalms 74 : 15 (LXXEN)
Thou didst cleave fountains and torrents; thou driedst up *Heb. rivers of Etham mighty rivers.
Psalms 74 : 16 (LXXEN)
The day is thine, and the night is thine; thou hast prepared the sun and the moon.
Psalms 74 : 17 (LXXEN)
Thou hast made all the borders of the earth; thou hast made summer and spring.
Psalms 74 : 18 (LXXEN)
Remember this thy creation: an enemy has reproached the Lord, and a foolish people has provoked thy name.
Psalms 74 : 19 (LXXEN)
Deliver not to the wild beasts a soul that gives praise to thee: forget not for ever the souls of thy poor.
Psalms 74 : 20 (LXXEN)
Look upon thy covenant: for the dark places of the earth are filled with the habitations of iniquity.
Psalms 74 : 21 (LXXEN)
let not the afflicted and shamed one be rejected: the poor and needy shall praise thy name.
Psalms 74 : 22 (LXXEN)
Arise, O God, plead thy cause: remember thy reproaches that come from the foolish one all the day.
Psalms 74 : 23 (LXXEN)
Forget not the voice of thy suppliants: let the pride of them that hate thee continually ascend before thee.
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