Psalms 74
1 O God, why have you cast us off for ever? why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
An instruction: of Asaph. Why, O God, hast thou cast off for ever? [why] doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
2 Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old; the rod of your inheritance, which you have redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein you have dwelled.
Remember thine assembly, which thou hast purchased of old, which thou hast redeemed [to be] the portion of thine inheritance, this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
3 Lift up your feet to the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary.
Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.
4 Your enemies roar in the middle of your congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs [for] signs.
5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes on the thick trees.
[A man] was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees;
6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
And now they break down its carved work altogether, with hatchets and hammers.
7 They have cast fire into your sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of your name to the ground.
They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitation 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.
They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all God's places of assembly in the land.
9 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knows how long.
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 your name for ever?
How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy contemn thy name for ever?
11 Why withdraw you your hand, even your right hand? pluck it out of your bosom.
Why withdrawest thou thy hand, and thy right hand? [pluck it] out of thy bosom: consume [them].
12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the middle of the earth.
But God is my king of old, accomplishing deliverances in the midst of the earth.
13 You did divide the sea by your strength: you brake the heads of the dragons in the waters.
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst break the heads of the monsters on the waters:
14 You brake the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gave him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Thou didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert.
15 You did split the fountain and the flood: you dried up mighty rivers.
Thou didst cleave fountain and torrent, thou driedst up ever-flowing rivers.
16 The day is yours, the night also is yours: you have prepared the light and the sun.
The day is thine, the night also is thine; thou hast prepared the moon and the sun:
17 You have set all the borders of the earth: you have made summer and winter.
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth; summer and winter — thou didst form them.
18 Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed your name.
Remember this, that an enemy hath reproached Jehovah, and a foolish people have contemned thy name.
19 O deliver not the soul of your turtledove to the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of your poor for ever.
Give not up the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the troop of thine afflicted for ever.
20 Have respect to the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence.
21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise your name.
Oh let not the oppressed one return ashamed; let the afflicted and needy praise thy name.
22 Arise, O God, plead your own cause: remember how the foolish man reproaches you daily.
Rise up, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day;
23 Forget not the voice of your enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against you increases continually.
Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: the tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually.
