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The Book of Psalms

Chapter 74

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Ps 74:1	O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
Ps 74:2	Remember thy congregation, which thou hast gotten of old, Which thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of thine inheritance; And mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
Ps 74:3	Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins, All the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.
Ps 74:4	Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine assembly; They have set up their ensigns for signs.
Ps 74:5	They seemed as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket of trees.
Ps 74:6	And now all the carved work thereof They break down with hatchet and hammers.
Ps 74:7	They have set thy sanctuary on fire; They have profaned the dwelling-place of thy name by casting it to the ground.
Ps 74:8	They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether: They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
Ps 74:9	We see not our signs: There is no more any prophet; Neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
Ps 74:10	How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
Ps 74:11	Why drawest thou back thy hand, even thy right hand? Pluck it out of thy bosom and consume them.
Ps 74:12	Yet God is my King of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth.
Ps 74:13	Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: Thou brakest the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.
Ps 74:14	Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces; Thou gavest him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Ps 74:15	Thou didst cleave fountain and flood: Thou driedst up mighty rivers.
Ps 74:16	The day is thine, the night also is thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
Ps 74:17	Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: Thou hast made summer and winter.
Ps 74:18	Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.
Ps 74:19	Oh deliver not the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast: Forget not the life of thy poor for ever.
Ps 74:20	Have respect unto the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.
Ps 74:21	Oh let not the oppressed return ashamed: Let the poor and needy praise thy name.
Ps 74:22	Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: Remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day.
Ps 74:23	Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: The tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually. For the Chief Musician; set to Al-tash-heth. A Psalm of Asaph; a song.