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
74
Maschil of Asaph.
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;
And mount 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 it out 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.
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