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Chapter 74
Psal AFV2020 74:1  An Instruction of Asaph.O God, why have You cast us off forever? Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?
Psal AFV2020 74:2  Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old, the rod of Your inheritance which You have redeemed; this Mount Zion in which You have dwelt.
Psal AFV2020 74:3  Lift up Your feet unto the perpetual ruins; all this destruction the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
Psal AFV2020 74:4  Your enemies roar in the midst of Your congregation; they set up their own banners for signs.
Psal AFV2020 74:5  They seem like men who lifted up their axes against the thick trees.
Psal AFV2020 74:6  With axes and hammers, they strike down all its carved idols at once.
Psal AFV2020 74:7  They burned Your sanctuary to the ground; they defiled the dwelling place of Your name.
Psal AFV2020 74:8  They said in their hearts, "Together let us rage against them;" they have burned up all God's meeting places in the land.
Psal AFV2020 74:9  We did not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet; neither is there among us any who knows how long.
Psal AFV2020 74:10  O God, how long shall the adversary speak evil? Shall the enemy blaspheme Your name forever?
Psal AFV2020 74:11  Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand? Draw it out of Your bosom and consume them,
Psal AFV2020 74:12  For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth,
Psal AFV2020 74:13  You divide the sea by Your strength; You break the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
Psal AFV2020 74:14  You crushed the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gave him to be food to the people living in the wilderness.
Psal AFV2020 74:15  You break open the fountain and the flood; You dry up mighty rivers.
Psal AFV2020 74:16  The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have established the light and the sun.
Psal AFV2020 74:17  You have set all the boundaries of the earth; You have made summer and winter.
Psal AFV2020 74:18  Remember this—that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and the foolish people have blasphemed Your name.
Psal AFV2020 74:19  O deliver not the life of Your turtledove unto the wild beasts; forget not the lives of Your afflicted people forever.
Psal AFV2020 74:20  Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the houses of cruelty.
Psal AFV2020 74:21  Oh, let not the oppressed ones return ashamed; let the poor and needy praise Your name.
Psal AFV2020 74:22  Arise, O God, plead Your own cause; remember how the foolish man reproaches You daily.
Psal AFV2020 74:23  Forget not the voice of Your enemies; the noise of those who rise up against You increases continually.