Psalms 74
A psalm of contemplation to Asaph.
74:1O God, why did you thrust us away unto the end? Why is your rage provoked to anger against the sheep of your pasture?
74:2Remember your congregation! of which you acquired from the beginning. You ransomed the rod of your inheritance; this mount Zion where you encamped in it.
74:3Lift up your hands against their pride unto completion! for as much as the enemy did wickedly in your holy place.
74:4And the ones detesting you boasted in the midst of your holiday; they set their signs for signs.
74:5And they knew not as in the conclusion above, as they cut down in the forest of woods with axes,
74:6so they broke down its doors together with a hewing axe and chisel.
74:7They set your sanctuary on fire to the ground. They profaned the tent of your name.
74:8Their kin together said in their heart, Come and let us cause to cease all the holidays of God from the land!
74:9We did not see our signs; there is not yet a prophet; and one of us does not know any longer.
74:10For how long, O God, shall the enemy berate? He provokes the opposition of your name to the end.
74:11Why did you turn away your hand, even your right hand from the midst of your bosom to the end?
74:12But God our king is before the eon. He worked deliverance in the midst of the earth.
74:13You held the sea in check by your power. You broke the heads of the dragons upon the water.
74:14You fractured the heads of the dragon; you gave him for food to the Ethiopian peoples.
74:15You tore open the springs and rushing streams. You dried the rivers of continuance.
74:16Yours is the day, and yours is the night; you fashioned giving light and the sun.
74:17You made all the boundaries of the earth; summer and spring, you shaped them.
74:18Remember this! an enemy berated the lord, and a foolish people provoked your name.
74:19You should not deliver up a soul making acknowledgment to you to the wild beasts; of the souls of your needy you should not forget to the end.
74:20Look unto your covenant! for the ones being darkened filled the earth with houses of lawless deeds.
74:21Let not the one being humbled be turned away being disgraced! The poor and needy shall praise your name.
74:22Rise up, O God, adjudicate your cause! Remember your scorning by the fool the entire day!
74:23You should not forget the voice of your servants. The pride of the ones detesting you ascended continually.