RWebster - Psalms - 74

74:1  O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thy anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

74:2  Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thy inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, in which thou hast dwelt.

74:3  Lift up thy feet to the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

74:4  Thy enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their banners for signs.

74:5  A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

74:6  But now they break down its carved work at once with axes and hammers.

74:7  They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.

74:8  They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

74:9  We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

74:10  O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

74:11  Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.

74:12  For Godis my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

74:13  Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou didst break the heads of the dragons in the waters.

74:14  Thou didst break the head of leviathan in pieces, and didst give him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

74:15  Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou didst dry up mighty rivers.

74:16  The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

74:17  Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.

74:18  Remember this, the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

74:19  O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove to the multitude of the wicked : forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.

74:20  Have respect to the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

74:21  O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

74:22  Arise, O God, plead thy own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.

74:23  Forget not the voice of thy enemies: the tumult of those that rise against thee increaseth continually.