Psalm 74:1–8
1 O God, why hast thou acast us off for ever?
Why doth thine anger bsmoke against cthe sheep of thy pasture?
2 Remember thy congregation, which dthou hast purchased of old;
The ||erod of fthine inheritance, which gthou hast redeemed;
This mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual hdesolations;
Even iall that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
4 Thine enemies iroar in the midst of thy jcongregations;
kThey set up their ensigns for signs.
5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up
Axes upon the thick trees.
6 But now they break down lthe carved work thereof
At once with axes and hammers.
7 m†They have cast fire into thy sanctuary,
nThey have defiled oby casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
8 pThey said in their hearts, Let us †destroy them together:
They have burned up all the jsynagogues of God in the land.