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Chapter 74 |
| 1 | O God, why
hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of
thy pasture? |
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| 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. |
| 3 | Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual
desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
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| 4 | Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their
ensigns for signs. |
| 5 | A man was famous according as he had lifted
up axes upon the thick trees. |
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6 | But now they break down the carved work
thereof at once with axes and hammers. |
| 7 | They have cast fire into thy
sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to
the ground. |
| 8
| They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together:
they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land. |
| 9 | We see not
our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that
knoweth how long. |
| 10 | O God, how long shall the adversary
reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever? |
| 11 | Why
withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy
bosom. |
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| For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst
of the earth. |
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13 | Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou
brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. |
| 14 | Thou brakest
the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people
inhabiting the wilderness. |
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15 | Thou didst cleave the fountain and the
flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers. |
| 16 | The day is thine, the night
also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. |
| 17 | Thou
hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
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| 18 | Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the
foolish people have blasphemed thy name. |
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19 | O deliver not the soul of
thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of
thy poor for ever. |
| 20 | Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark
places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. |
| 21 | O let
not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
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| 22 | Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man
reproacheth thee daily. |
| 23 | Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the
tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually. |
