Psalms 74
74
PSALM 74
Common Meter: 8,6,8,6
Maschil of Asaph.
1O God, why hast thou cast us off?
is it for evermore?
Against thy pasture-sheep why doth
thine anger smoke so sore?
2O call to thy rememberance
thy congregation,
Which thou hast purchased of old;
still think the same upon:
The rod of thine inheritance,
which thou redeemed hast,
This Sion hill, wherein thou hadst
thy dwelling in times past.
3To these long desolations
thy feet lift, do not tarry;
For all the ills thy foes have done
within thy sanctuary.
4Amidst thy congregations
thine enemies do roar:
Their ensigns they set up for signs
of triumph thee before.
5A man was famous, and was had
in estimation,
According as he lifted up
his axe thick trees upon.
6But all at once with axes now
and hammers they go to,
And down the carved work thereof
they break, and quite undo.
7They fired have thy sanctuary,
and have defil'd the same,
By casting down unto the ground
the place where dwelt thy name.
8Thus said they in their hearts, Let us
destroy them out of hand:
They burnt up all the synagogues
of God within the land.
9Our signs we do not now behold;
there is not us among
A prophet more, nor any one
that knows the time how long.
10How long, Lord, shall the enemy
thus in reproach exclaim?
And shall the adversary thus
always blaspheme thy name?
11Thy hand, ev'n thy right hand of might,
why dost thou thus draw back?
O from thy bosom pluck it out
for our deliv'rance sake.
12For certainly God is my King,
ev'n from the times of old,
Working in midst of all the earth
salvation manifold.
13The sea, by thy great pow'r, to part
asunder thou didst make;
And thou the dragons' heads, O Lord,
within the waters brake.
14The leviathan's head thou brak'st
in pieces, and didst give
Him to be meat unto the folk
in wilderness that live.
15Thou clav'st the fountain and the flood,
which did with streams abound:
Thou dry'dst the mighty waters up
unto the very ground.
16Thine only is the day, O Lord,
thine also is the night;
And thou alone prepared hast
the sun and shining light.
17By thee the borders of the earth
were settled ev'ry where:
The summer and the winter both
by thee created were.
18That th' enemy reproached hath,
O keep it in record;
And that the foolish people have
blasphem'd thy name, O Lord.
19Unto the multitude do not
thy turtle's soul deliver:
The congregation of thy poor
do not forget for ever.
20Unto thy cov'nant have respect;
for earth's dark places be
Full of the habitations
of horrid cruelty.
21O let not those that be oppress'd
return again with shame:
Let those that poor and needy are
give praise unto thy name.
22Do thou, O God, arise and plead
the cause that is thine own:
Remember how thou art reproach'd
still by the foolish one.
23Do not forget the voice of those
that are thine enemies:
Of those the tumult ever grows
that do against thee rise.
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Psalms 74
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1A Psalme to give instruction, committed to Asaph. O God, why hast thou put vs away for euer? why is thy wrath kindled against the sheepe of thy pasture? 2Thinke vpon thy Congregation, which thou hast possessed of olde, and on the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed, and on this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt. 3Lift vp thy strokes, that thou mayest for euer destroy euery enemie that doeth euill to the Sanctuarie. 4Thine aduersaries roare in the middes of thy Congregation, and set vp their banners for signes. 5He that lifted the axes vpon the thicke trees, was renowmed, as one, that brought a thing to perfection: 6But nowe they breake downe the carued worke thereof with axes and hammers. 7They haue cast thy Sanctuarie into the fire, and rased it to the grounde, and haue defiled the dwelling place of thy Name. 8They saide in their hearts, Let vs destroy them altogether: they haue burnt all the Synagogues of God in the land. 9We see not our signes: there is not one Prophet more, nor any with vs that knoweth howe long. 10O God, howe long shall the aduersarie reproche thee? shall the enemie blaspheme thy Name for euer? 11Why withdrawest thou thine hand, euen thy right hand? drawe it out of thy bosome, and consume them. 12Euen God is my King of olde, working saluation in the middes of the earth. 13Thou didest deuide the sea by thy power: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. 14Thou brakest the head of Liuiathan in pieces, and gauest him to be meate for the people in wildernesse. 15Thou brakest vp the fountaine and riuer: thou dryedst vp mightie riuers. 16The day is thine, and the night is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sunne. 17Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter. 18Remember this, that the enemie hath reproched the Lord, and the foolish people hath blasphemed thy Name. 19Giue not the soule of thy turtle doue vnto the beast, and forget not the Congregation of thy poore for euer. 20Consider thy couenant: for the darke places of the earth are full of the habitations of the cruell. 21Oh let not the oppressed returne ashamed, but let the poore and needie prayse thy Name. 22Arise, O God: mainteine thine owne cause: remember thy dayly reproche by the foolish man. 23Forget not the voyce of thine enemies: for the tumult of them, that rise against thee, ascendeth continually.
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