Psalms 74
1 A poem of Asaph why? O God have you rejected [us] to perpetuity does it smoke? anger your on [the] sheep of pasture your.
A maskil of Asaph. Why, O God, have you spurned us forever? Why smokes your wrath against the sheep of your pasture?
2 Remember congregation your - [which] you acquired antiquity [which] you redeemed [the] tribe of inheritance your [the] mountain of Zion which - you have dwelt on it.
Remember the community you purchased of old to become by redemption the tribe of your heritage, Zion, the mountain you made your home.
3 Lift up! footsteps your to [the] ruins of perpetuity everything he has done harm to [the] enemy in the sanctuary.
Rouse yourself, visit its ruins complete. In the temple the foe has made havoc of all things.
4 They roared opposers your in [the] midst of appointed place your they set up signs their signs.
Like lions your enemies roared through your house, replacing our symbols by signs of their own,
5 It was known like [one who] brings upwards in a thicket of tree[s] axes.
hacking, like woodsmen who lift axes on thickets of trees,
6 (And now *Q(K)*) engravings its altogether with axe[s] and crowbars they struck!
smashing with hatchets and hammers all of its carved work together.
7 They sent in fire sanctuary your to the ground they profaned [the] dwelling place of name your.
They have set your temple on fire, to the very ground they have outraged the place where lives your name.
8 They said in heart their let us oppress them altogether they burned all [the] appointed places of God in the land.
They have said in their heart, “Let us utterly crush them.” They have burned all the houses of God in the land.
9 Signs our not we have seen there not still [is] a prophet and not [is] with us [one who] knows until when?
No symbol of ours do we see any more: no prophet is there any more, none is with us who knows how long.
10 Until when? O God will he taunt [the] opponent will he spurn? [the] enemy name your to perpetuity.
How long, O God, is the foe to insult? Shall the enemy spurn your name forever?
11 Why? do you draw back hand your and right [hand] your from [the] midst of (bosom your *Q(K)*) destroy.
Why, O Lord, do you hold back your hand, why keep your right hand in the folds of your robe?
12 And God [has been] king my from antiquity [who] does salvation in [the] midst of the earth.
Yet God is our king from the ancient days, in the midst of the earth working deeds of salvation.
13 You you divided by strength your [the] sea you shattered [the] heads of sea monsters on the waters.
It was you who did cleave the sea by your might, and shatter the heads of the ocean monsters.
14 You you crushed [the] heads of Leviathan you gave it food to a people to desert-dwellers.
It was you who did crush many-headed Leviathan, and give him as food to the beasts of the wilderness.
15 You you broke open a spring and a torrent you you dried up rivers of ever-flowing.
It was you who did cleave the fountains and torrents; it was you who did dry the perennial streams.
16 [belongs] to You day also [belongs] to you night you you prepared a luminary and [the] sun.
Yours is the day; yours, too, is the night, it was you who did establish the sun and the star.
17 You you established all [the] boundaries of [the] earth summer and winter you you formed them.
It was you who did fix all the borders of earth: summer and winter it’s you who have made them.
18 Remember this [the] enemy he taunted - O Yahweh and a people foolish they spurned name your.
Yet, for all this, the foe has insulted you, Lord, and a nation of fools has reviled your name.
19 May not you give to an animal [the] life of turtle-dove your [the] life of poor [people] your may not you forget to perpetuity.
Do not give your dove to the beasts, do not forget your afflicted forever.
20 Pay attention to the covenant for they are full [the] dark places of [the] land settlements of violence.
Look to the sleek ones – how full they are: the dark places of earth are the dwellings of violence.
21 May not he return [the] oppressed humiliated [the] poor and [the] needy may they praise name your.
O let not the downtrodden turn back ashamed: let the poor and the needy sing praise to your name.
22 Arise! O God conduct! case your remember reproach your from a fool all the day.
Arise, God, and defend your cause: remember how fools all the day insult you.
23 May not you forget [the] sound of opposers your [the] uproar of [those who] rise against you [which] goes up continually.
Do not forget the uproar of your enemies, the din of your foes that ascends evermore.
