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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PSALM 74
1 The learning of Asaph. God, why hast thou put us away into the end; thy strong vengeance is wroth on the sheep of thy pasture?
2Be thou mindful of thy gathering together; which thou haddest in possession from the beginning. Thou again-boughtest the rod of thine heritage; the hill of Zion, in which thou dwelledest therein.
3Raise thine hands into the prides of them; how great things the enemy did wickedly in the holy place.
4And they that hated thee; had glory in the midst of thy solemnity. They setted their signs, either banners, to be signs on the highest place, as in the outgoing [or going out]; and they knew not.
5As in a wood of trees, they hewed down with axes the gates thereof into itself;
6they casted down it with an ax, and a broad falling ax.
7They burnt with fire thy saintuary; they defouled the tabernacle of thy name in earth.
8The kindred of them said together in their heart; Make we all the feast days of God to cease in the earth.
9We have not seen our signs, now there is no prophet; and he shall no more know us.
10God, how long shall the enemy say despite? the adversary stirreth to ire thy name into the end.
11Why turnest thou away thine hand, to not draw out thy right hand from the midst of thy bosom, till into the end?
12Forsooth God our king before worlds, wrought health in the midst of [the] earth.
13Thou madest firm the sea by thy virtue; thou hast troubled the heads of the dragons in waters.
14Thou hast broken the heads of the dragon; thou hast given him to be meat to the peoples of Ethiopians.
15Thou hast broken wells, and strands [or streams]; thou madest dry the floods of Eitan.
16The day is thine, and the night is thine; thou madest the morrowtide and the sun.
17Thou madest all the ends of the earth; summer, and ver time, either springing time, thou formedest those [or them].
18Be thou mindful of this thing, the enemy hath said shame to the Lord; and the unwise people hath excited to ire thy name.
19Betake thou not to beasts men acknowledging to thee; and forget thou not into the end the souls of thy poor men.
20Behold into thy testament; for they that be made dark of earth, be [full-]filled with the houses of wickednesses.
21A meek man be not turned away made ashamed; a poor man and needy shall praise thy name.
22God, rise up, deem thou thy cause; be thou mindful of thy shames, either upbraidings, of those that be all day of the unwise man.
23Forget thou not the voices of thine enemies; the pride of them that hate thee ascendeth [or goeth up] ever-[more].
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