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Psalms 74

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¹O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? ²Remember thy congregation, which thou hast gotten of old, Which thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of thine inheritance; Andmount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt. ³Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins, All the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary. ⁴Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine assembly; They have set up their ensigns for signs. ⁵They seemed as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket of trees. ⁶And now all the carved work thereof They break down with hatchet and hammers. ⁷They have set thy sanctuary on fire; They have profaned the dwelling-place of thy name by casting it to the ground. ⁸They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether: They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land. ⁹We see not our signs: There is no more any prophet; Neither is there among us any that knoweth how long. ¹⁰How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever? ¹¹Why drawest thou back thy hand, even thy right hand? Pluck itout of thy bosom and consume them. ¹²Yet God is my King of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth. ¹³Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: Thou brakest the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters. ¹⁴Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces; Thou gavest him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness. ¹⁵Thou didst cleave fountain and flood: Thou driedst up mighty rivers. ¹⁶The day is thine, the night also is thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun. ¹⁷Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: Thou hast made summer and winter. ¹⁸Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name. ¹⁹Oh deliver not the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast: Forget not the life of thy poor for ever. ²⁰Have respect unto the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence. ²¹Oh let not the oppressed return ashamed: Let the poor and needy praise thy name. ²²Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: Remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day. ²³Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: The tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually.