PS-74:1 Maschil of Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast [us] off for

ever? [why]

doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

PS-74:2 Remember thy congregation, [which] thou hast purchased

of old; the rod

of thine inheritance, [which] thou hast redeemed; this mount

Zion, wherein

thou hast dwelt.

PS-74:3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; [even]

all [that] the

enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

PS-74:4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations;

they set up

their ensigns [for] signs.

PS-74:5 [A man] was famous according as he had lifted up axes

upon the thick

trees.

PS-74:6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once

with axes and

hammers.

PS-74:7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have

defiled [by casting

down] the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.

PS-74:8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together:

they have

burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

PS-74:9 We see not our signs: [there is] no more any prophet:

neither [is

there] among us any that knoweth how long.

PS-74:10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the

enemy

blaspheme thy name for ever?

PS-74:11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand?

pluck [it] out of

thy bosom.

PS-74:12 For God [is] my King of old, working salvation in the

midst of the

earth.

PS-74:13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest

the heads of

the dragons in the waters.

PS-74:14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, [and]

gavest him [to

be] meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

PS-74:15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou

driedst up mighty

rivers.

PS-74:16 The day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou

hast prepared the

light and the sun.

PS-74:17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast

made summer and

winter.

PS-74:18 Remember this, [that] the enemy hath reproached, O LORD,

 and [that]

the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

PS-74:19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the

multitude [of the

wicked]: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.

PS-74:20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of

the earth are

full of the habitations of cruelty.

PS-74:21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor

and needy praise

thy name.

PS-74:22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the

foolish man

reproacheth thee daily.

PS-74:23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of

those that rise

up against thee increaseth continually.

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