| Chapter
74 |
| 1 | O God,
why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the
sheep of thy pasture? |
| 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. |
| 3 | Lift up thy feet
unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in
the sanctuary. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 12 | For God is my King of old, working
salvation in the midst of the earth. |
|
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. |
|
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. |
| 18 | Remember this, that the enemy
hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy
name. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
