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.