Psalm Chapter 74 Back NextPsalm 74 A contemplation by
Asaph.
{74:1} God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
{74:2} Remember your
congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; Mount Zion, in which you have lived.
{74:3} Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
{74:4} Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.
{74:5} They behaved like men wielding
axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.
{74:6} Now they break all its
carved work down with hatchet and
hammers.
{74:7} They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
{74:8} They said in their
heart, "We will crush them completely." They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
{74:9} We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
{74:10} How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
{74:11} Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it out of your pocket and consume them!
{74:12} Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the
earth.
{74:13} You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
{74:14} You broke the heads of
Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and
desert creatures.
{74:15} You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.
{74:16} The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.
{74:17} You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.
{74:18} Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
{74:19} Don't deliver the soul of your
dove to wild
beasts. Don't forget the life of your poor forever.
{74:20} Honor your
covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
{74:21} Don't let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.
{74:22} Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
{74:23} Don't forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.
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