Psalms 74
1 An Instructive Psalm. Asaph’s. Wherefore, O God, hast thou cast off utterly? Shall thine anger smoke against the flock of thine own pasturing?
An Instruction of Asaph. Why, O God, hast Thou cast off for ever? Thine anger smoketh against the flock of Thy pasture.
2 Remember thine own assembly thou didst acquire aforetime, Thou didst redeem the tribe of thine own inheritance, Mount Zion, wherein thou didst take up thy habitation.
Remember Thy company. Thou didst purchase of old, Thou didst redeem the rod of Thy inheritance, This mount Zion — Thou didst dwell in it.
3 Lift up thy steps unto the places utterly unsafe, All the mischief!—the foe in the sanctuary!
Lift up Thy steps to the perpetual desolations, Everything the enemy did wickedly in the sanctuary.
4 Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine appointed meeting, They have set their ensigns as tokens!
Roared have thine adversaries, In the midst of Thy meeting-places, They have set their ensigns as ensigns.
5 One used to be known according as he carried up high—into the thicket of trees—the axes;
He is known as one bringing in on high Against a thicket of wood — axes.
6 But, now, the doors thereof all together, with axes and hammers, they batter down.
And now, its carvings together With axe and hatchet they break down,
7 They have cast, into the fire, thy sanctuary, To the ground, have they profaned the habitation of thy Name.
They have sent into fire Thy sanctuary, to the earth they polluted the tabernacle of Thy name,
8 They have said in their heart, Let us suppress them altogether, They have burned up all the meeting-places of GOD in the land.
They said in their hearts, 'Let us oppress them together,' They did burn all the meeting-places of God in the land.
9 Our own signs, have we not seen, —There is no longer a prophet, —Neither is there with us, one who knoweth—How long!
Our ensigns we have not seen, There is no more a prophet, Nor with us is one knowing how long.
10 How long, O God, shall the adversary, reproach? Shall the enemy revile thy Name perpetually?
Till when, O God, doth an adversary reproach? Doth an enemy despise thy name for ever?
11 Wherefore shouldst thou withdraw thy hand—thy right hand? [Bring it] out of the midst of thy bosom! (Selah)
Why dost Thou turn back Thy hand, Even Thy right hand? From the midst of Thy bosom remove [it].
12 But, God, hath been my king from aforetime, Working Deliverances in the midst of the earth.
And God [is] my king of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth.
13 Thou, didst cleave asunder, in thy might, the sea, Thou didst break in pieces the heads of the Crocodiles, [till they floated] on the waters;
Thou hast broken by Thy strength a sea -[monster], Thou hast shivered Heads of dragons by the waters,
14 Thou, didst crush the heads of the Sea-Monster, Thou didst give him to be food, for the people of the deserts;
Thou hast broken the heads of leviathan, Thou makest him food, For the people of the dry places.
15 Thou, didst cleave open fountain and torrent, Thou, didst dry up rivers of steady flow:
Thou hast cleaved a fountain and a stream, Thou hast dried up perennial flowings.
16 Thine, is the day, Yea, thine, the night, Thou, didst establish moon and sun;
Thine [is] the day, also Thine [is] the night, Thou hast prepared a light giver — the sun.
17 Thou, didst set up all the bounds of the earth, As for summer and winter, thou, didst form them!
Thou hast set up all the borders of earth, Summer and winter Thou hast formed them.
18 Remember this, An enemy, hath reproached Yahweh, Yea, an impious people, have reviled thy Name.
Remember this — an enemy reproached Jehovah, And a foolish people have despised Thy name.
19 Do not deliver up, to a wild beast, the life of thy turtle-dove, The living host of thine oppressed ones, do not forget perpetually.
Give not up to a company, The soul of Thy turtle-dove, The company of Thy poor ones forget not for ever.
20 Have respect to thy covenant, For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.
Look attentively to the covenant, For the dark places of earth, Have been full of habitations of violence.
21 May the crushed one not again be confounded, As for the oppressed and the needy, let them praise thy Name.
Let not the oppressed turn back ashamed, Let the poor and needy praise Thy name,
22 Arise! O God, plead thine own cause, Remember the reproach of thee, from the impious one, all the day:
Arise, O God, plead Thy plea, Remember Thy reproach from a fool all the day.
23 Do not forget the voice of thine adversaries, The noise of thine assailants, ascending continually.
Forget not the voice of Thine adversaries, The noise of Thy withstanders is going up continually!
