AB - Psalms - 74

74:1  Why have You rejected us, O God, forever? Why has Your wrath been kindled against the sheep of Your pasture?

74:2  Remember Your congregation which You have purchased from the beginning; You ransomed the rod of Your inheritance, this Mount Zion where You have dwelt.

74:3  Lift up Your hands against their pride continually; because of all that the enemy has done wickedly in Your holy places.

74:4  And they that hate You have boasted in the midst of Your feast; they have set up their standards for signs,

74:5  ignorantly as it were in the entrance above;

74:6  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.

74:7  They have burned Your sanctuary with fire to the ground; they have profaned the habitation of Your name.

74:8  They have said in their heart, even all their kindred together, Come, let us abolish the feasts of the Lord from the earth.

74:9  We have not seen our signs; there is no longer a prophet; and God will not know us anymore.

74:10  How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach? Shall the enemy provoke Your name forever?

74:11  Why do You turn away Your hand, and Your right hand from the midst of Your bosom forever?

74:12  But God is our King of old; He has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.

74:13  You established the sea in Your might, You broke to pieces the heads of the dragons in the water.

74:14  You broke to pieces the heads of the dragon; You gave him as meat to the Ethiopian nations.

74:15  You broke open the fountains and torrents; You dried up mighty rivers.

74:16  The day is Yours, and the night is Yours; You have prepared the sun and the moon.

74:17  You have made all the borders of the earth; You have made summer and spring.

74:18  Remember this Your creation; an enemy has reproached the Lord, and a foolish people have provoked Your name.

74:19  Deliver not to the wild beasts a soul that gives praise to You: forget not forever the souls of Your poor.

74:20  Look upon Your covenant; for the dark places of the earth are filled with the habitations of iniquity.

74:21  Let not the afflicted and ashamed one be rejected; the poor and needy shall praise Your name.

74:22  Arise, O God, plead Your cause; remember Your reproaches that come from the foolish one all the day.

74:23  Forget not the voice of Your enemies; let the pride of them that hate You continually ascend before You.