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
An instruction: of Asaph.
1Why, O God#GodHebrew: Elohim hast thou cast off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? 2Remember thine assembly, which thou hast purchased of old, which thou hast redeemed to be the portion of thine inheritance, this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt. 3Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed. 4Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs for signs. 5A man was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees; 6And now they break down its carved work altogether, with hatchets and hammers. 7They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitation of thy name to the ground. 8They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all ·God's#GodHebrew: El places of assembly 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#GodHebrew: Elohim shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy contemn thy name for ever? 11Why withdrawest thou thy hand, and thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom: consume them.
12But God#GodHebrew: Elohim is my king of old, accomplishing deliverances in the midst of the earth. 13Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst break the heads of the monsters on the waters: 14Thou didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert. 15Thou didst cleave fountain and torrent, thou driedst up ever-flowing rivers. 16The day is thine, the night also is thine; thou hast prepared the moon and the sun: 17Thou hast set all the borders of the earth; summer and winter — thou didst form them.
18Remember this, that an enemy hath reproached Jehovah, and a foolish people have contemned thy name. 19Give not up the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the troop of thine afflicted for ever. 20Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence. 21Oh let not the oppressed one return ashamed; let the afflicted and needy praise thy name. 22Rise up, O God#GodHebrew: Elohim 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.
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First published in 1890. This edition is maintained by the British and Foreign Bible Society.