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
A maskil#74.0 Perhaps instruction of Asaph.
1God, why have you abandoned us forever?
Why does your anger smolder
at the sheep of your own pasture?
2Remember your congregation
that you took as your own long ago,
that you redeemed to be the tribe of your own possession—
remember Mount Zion, where you dwell.
3March to the unending ruins,
to all that the enemy destroyed in the sanctuary.
4Your enemies roared in your own meeting place;
they set up their own signs there!
5It looked like axes raised
against a thicket of trees.#74.5 Heb uncertain
6And then all its carvings
they hacked down with hatchet and pick.
7They set fire to your sanctuary, burned it to the ground;
they defiled the dwelling place of your name.
8They said in their hearts, We’ll kill all of them together!
They burned all of God’s meeting places in the land.
9We don’t see our own signs anymore.
No prophet is left.
And none of us know how long it will last.
10How long, God, will foes insult you?
Are enemies going to abuse your name forever?
11Why do you pull your hand back?
Why do you hold your strong hand close to your chest?
12Yet God has been my king from ancient days—
God, who makes salvation happen in the heart of the earth!
13You split the sea with your power.
You shattered the heads of the sea monsters on the water.
14You crushed Leviathan’s heads.
You gave it to the desert dwellers for food!
15You split open springs and streams;
you made strong-flowing rivers dry right up.
16The day belongs to you! The night too!
You established both the moon and the sun.
17You set all the boundaries of the earth in place.
Summer and winter? You made them!
18So remember this, LORD:
how enemies have insulted you,
how unbelieving fools have abused your name.
19Don’t deliver the life of your dove to wild animals!
Don’t forget the lives of your afflicted people forever!
20Consider the covenant!
Because the land’s dark places are full of violence.
21Don’t let the oppressed live in shame.
No, let the poor and needy praise your name!
22God, rise up! Make your case!
Remember how unbelieving fools insult you all day long.
23Don’t forget the voices of your enemies,
the racket of your adversaries that never quits.
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