Why, O God, hast thou cast off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? Remember thine assembly, which thou hast purchased of old, which thou hast redeemed to be the portion of thine inheritance, this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt. Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed. Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs for signs. A man was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees; And now they break down its carved work altogether, with hatchets and hammers. They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitation of thy name to the ground. They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all •God’s places of assembly in the land. We see not our signs; there is no more any prophet, neither is there among us any that knoweth how long. How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy contemn thy name for ever? Why withdrawest thou thy hand, and thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom: consume them.

¹²But God is my king of old, accomplishing deliverances in the midst of the earth. ¹³Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst break the heads of the monsters on the waters: ¹⁴Thou didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert. ¹⁵Thou didst cleave fountain and torrent, thou driedst up ever-flowing rivers. ¹⁶The day is thine, the night also is thine; thou hast prepared the moon and the sun: ¹⁷Thou hast set all the borders of the earth; summer and winter—thou didst form them.

¹⁸Remember this, that an enemy hath reproached Jehovah, and a foolish people have contemned thy name. ¹⁹Give not up the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the troop of thine afflicted for ever. ²⁰Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence. ²¹Oh let not the oppressed one return ashamed; let the afflicted and needy praise thy name. ²²Rise up, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day; ²³Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: the tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually.

Psalm 75

To the chief Musician. ‘Destroy not.’ A Psalm of Asaph: a Song.

Unto thee we give thanks, O God, we give thanks; and thy name is near: thy marvellous works declare it. When I shall receive the assembly, I will judge with equity. The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I have established its pillars. Selah. I said unto the boastful, Boast not; and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: Lift not up your horn on high; speak not arrogantly with a stiff neck.

⁶For not from the east nor from the west, nor yet from the south doth exaltation come: ⁷For God is the judge; he putteth down one and exalteth another. ⁸For in the hand of Jehovah there is a cup, and it foameth with wine, it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same; yea, the dregs thereof shall all the wicked of the earth drain off, and drink. ⁹But as for me, I will declare for ever; I will sing psalms to the God of Jacob. ¹⁰And all the horns of the wicked will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

Psalm 76

To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph: a Song.

In Judah is God known, his name is great in Israel; And in Salem is his tent, and his dwelling-place in Zion. There broke he the flashings of the bow, shield and sword and battle. Selah. More glorious art thou, more excellent, than the mountains of prey. The stout-hearted are made a spoil, they have slept their sleep; and none of the men of might have found their hands. At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.

⁷Thou, thou art to be feared, and who can stand before thee when once thou art angry? ⁸Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from the heavens; the earth feared, and was still, ⁹When God rose up to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah. ¹⁰For the fury of man shall praise thee; the remainder of fury wilt thou gird on thyself. ¹¹Vow and pay unto Jehovah your God: let all that are round about him bring presents unto him that is to be feared. ¹²He cutteth off the spirit of princes; he is terrible to the kings of the earth.

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