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Chapter 74
Psal LEB 74:1  Why, O God, have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
Psal LEB 74:2  Remember your congregation that you bought long ago, when you redeemed the tribe of your inheritance. Remember ⌞Mount Zion⌟ where you have dwelt.
Psal LEB 74:3  Lift your steps to the perpetual ruins, to all that the enemy has ruined in the sanctuary.
Psal LEB 74:4  Your enemies have roared in the midst of your meeting place; they have set up their signs for signs.
Psal LEB 74:5  They are known to be like those who ⌞wield⌟ axes in a thicket of trees.
Psal LEB 74:6  And now its carved works altogether they have smashed with axe and hammer.
Psal LEB 74:7  They have set fire to your sanctuary. They have defiled to the ground, the dwelling place for your name.
Psal LEB 74:8  They have said in their heart, “We will completely oppress them.” They burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
Psal LEB 74:9  We do not see our signs, and there is no longer a prophet. No one with us knows how long.
Psal LEB 74:10  How long, O God, will the adversary taunt? Will the enemy treat your name with contempt forever?
Psal LEB 74:11  Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it from your bosom; destroy them!
Psal LEB 74:12  But God has been my king from long ago, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
Psal LEB 74:13  You split open the sea by your strength; You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
Psal LEB 74:14  You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food to the desert dwelling creatures.
Psal LEB 74:15  You split open spring and wadi. You dried up ever-flowing rivers.
Psal LEB 74:16  Yours is the day, yours is the night also. You established light and the sun.
Psal LEB 74:17  You defined all the boundaries of the earth; Summer and winter—you formed them.
Psal LEB 74:18  O Yahweh, remember this: the enemy taunts, and foolish people treat your name with contempt.
Psal LEB 74:19  Do not give to beasts the life of your dove; do not ever forget the life of your afflicted ones.
Psal LEB 74:20  Have regard for the covenant, because the dark places of the land are full of the haunts of violence.
Psal LEB 74:21  Do not let the oppressed turn back humiliated; let the poor and needy praise your name.
Psal LEB 74:22  Rise up, O God, plead your cause; remember the reproaching of you by the foolish ⌞all day long⌟.
Psal LEB 74:23  Do not forget the sound of your adversaries, the roar of those rising up against you ascending continually.