²Remember thy congregation, which thou hast possessed from the beginning. The sceptre of thy inheritance which thou hast redeemed: mount Sion in which thou hast dwelt.

³Lift up thy hands against their pride unto the end; see what things the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

⁴And they that hate thee have made their boasts, in the midst of thy solemnity. They have set up their ensigns for signs,

⁵And they knew not both in the going out and on the highest top. As with axes in a wood of trees,

⁶They have cut down at once the gates thereof, with axe and hatchet they have brought it down.

⁷They have set fire to thy sanctuary: they have defiled the dwelling place of thy name on the earth.

⁸They said in their heart, the whole kindred of them together: Let us abolish all the festival days of God from the land.

⁹Our signs we have not seen, there is now no prophet: and he will know us no more.

¹⁰How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach: is the adversary to provoke thy name for ever?

¹¹Why dost thou turn away thy hand: and thy right hand out of the midst of thy bosom for ever?

¹²But God is our king before ages: he hath wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.

¹³Thou by thy strength didst make the sea firm: thou didst crush the heads of the dragons in the waters.

¹⁴Thou hast broken the heads of the dragon: thou hast given him to be meat for the people of the Ethiopians.

¹⁵Thou hast broken up the fountains and the torrents: thou hast dried up the Ethan rivers.

¹⁶Thine is the day, and thine is the night: thou hast made the morning light and the sun.

¹⁷Thou hast made all the borders of the earth: the summer and the spring were formed by thee.

¹⁸Remember this, the enemy hath reproached the Lord: and a foolish people hath provoked thy name.

¹⁹Deliver not up to beasts the souls that confess to thee: and forget not to the end the souls of thy poor.

²⁰Have regard to thy covenant: for they that are the obscure of the earth have been filled with dwellings of iniquity.

²¹Let not the humble be turned away with confusion: the poor and needy shall praise thy name.

²²Arise, O God, judge thy own cause: remember thy reproaches with which the foolish man hath reproached thee all the day.

²³Forget not the voices of thy enemies: the pride of them that hate thee ascendeth continually.

Psalm 74

¹Unto the end, corrupt not, a psalm of a canticle for Asaph.

²We will praise thee, O God: we will praise, and we will call upon thy name. We will relate thy wondrous works:

³When I shall take a time, I will judge justices.

⁴The earth is melted, and all that dwell therein: I have established the pillars thereof.

⁵I said to the wicked: Do not act wickedly: and to the sinners: Lift not up the horn.

⁶Lift not up your horn on high: speak not iniquity against God.

⁷For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert hills:

⁸For God is the judge. One he putteth down, and another he lifteth up:

⁹For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup of strong wine full of mixture. And he hath poured it out from this to that: but the dregs thereof are not emptied: all the sinners of the earth shall drink.

¹⁰But I will declare for ever: I will sing to the God of Jacob.

¹¹And I will break all the horns of sinners: but the horns of the just shall be exalted.

Psalm 75

¹Unto the end, in praises, a psalm for Asaph: a canticle to the Assyrians.

²In Judea God is known: his name is great in Israel.

³And his place is in peace: and his abode in Sion:

⁴There hath he broken the powers of bows, the shield, the sword, and the battle.

⁵Thou enlightenest wonderfully from the everlasting hills.

⁶All the foolish of heart were troubled. They have slept their sleep; and all the men of riches have found nothing in their hands.

⁷At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, they have all slumbered that mounted on horseback.

⁸Thou art terrible, and who shall resist thee? from that time thy wrath.

⁹Thou hast caused judgment to be heard from heaven: the earth trembled and was still,

¹⁰When God arose in judgment, to save all the meek of the earth.

¹¹For the thought of man shall give praise to thee: and the remainders of the thought shall keep holiday to thee.

¹²Vow ye, and pay to the Lord your God: all you that are round about him bring presents. To him that is terrible,

¹³Even to him who taketh away the spirit of princes: to the terrible with the kings of the earth.

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