Psalm 74

¹An Instruction of Asaph. Why, O God, hast Thou cast off for ever? Thine anger smoketh against the flock of Thy pasture.

²Remember Thy company. Thou didst purchase of old, Thou didst redeem the rod of Thy inheritance, This mount Zion—Thou didst dwell in it.

³Lift up Thy steps to the perpetual desolations, Everything the enemy did wickedly in the sanctuary.

⁴Roared have thine adversaries, In the midst of Thy meeting-places, They have set their ensigns as ensigns.

⁵He is known as one bringing in on high Against a thicket of wood—axes.

⁶And now, its carvings together With axe and hatchet they break down,

⁷They have sent into fire Thy sanctuary, to the earth they polluted the tabernacle of Thy name,

⁸They said in their hearts, ‘Let us oppress them together,’ They did burn all the meeting-places of God in the land.

⁹Our ensigns we have not seen, There is no more a prophet, Nor with us is one knowing how long.

¹⁰Till when, O God, doth an adversary reproach? Doth an enemy despise thy name for ever?

¹¹Why dost Thou turn back Thy hand, Even Thy right hand? From the midst of Thy bosom remove it.

¹²And God is my king of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth.

¹³Thou hast broken by Thy strength a sea -monster, Thou hast shivered Heads of dragons by the waters,

¹⁴Thou hast broken the heads of leviathan, Thou makest him food, For the people of the dry places.

¹⁵Thou hast cleaved a fountain and a stream, Thou hast dried up perennial flowings.

¹⁶Thine is the day, also Thine is the night, Thou hast prepared a light giver—the sun.

¹⁷Thou hast set up all the borders of earth, Summer and winter Thou hast formed them.

¹⁸Remember this—an enemy reproached Jehovah, And a foolish people have despised Thy name.

¹⁹Give not up to a company, The soul of Thy turtle-dove, The company of Thy poor ones forget not for ever.

²⁰Look attentively to the covenant, For the dark places of earth, Have been full of habitations of violence.

²¹Let not the oppressed turn back ashamed, Let the poor and needy praise Thy name,

²²Arise, O God, plead Thy plea, Remember Thy reproach from a fool all the day.

²³Forget not the voice of Thine adversaries, The noise of Thy withstanders is going up continually!

Psalm 75