Psm74:1 O God, why do you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
Psm74:2 Remember your congregation, which you acquired long ago, which you redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage. Remember Mount Zion, where you came to dwell.
Psm74:3 Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary.
Psm74:4 Your foes have roared within your holy place; they set up their emblems there.
Psm74:5 At the upper entrance they hacked the wooden trellis with axes.
Psm74:6 And then, with hatchets and hammers, they smashed all its carved work.
Psm74:7 They set your sanctuary on fire; they desecrated the dwelling place of your name, bringing it to the ground.
Psm74:8 They said to themselves, "We will utterly subdue them"; they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
Psm74:9 We do not see our emblems; there is no longer any prophet, and there is no one among us who knows how long.
Psm74:10 How long, O God, is the foe to scoff? Is the enemy to revile your name forever?
Psm74:11 Why do you hold back your hand; why do you keep your hand in your bosom?
Psm74:12 Yet God my King is from of old, working salvation in the earth.
Psm74:13 You divided the sea by your might; you broke the heads of the dragons in the waters.
Psm74:14 You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
Psm74:15 You cut openings for springs and torrents; you dried up ever-flowing streams.
Psm74:16 Yours is the day, yours also the night; you established the luminaries and the sun.
Psm74:17 You have fixed all the bounds of the earth; you made summer and winter.
Psm74:18 Remember this, O LORD, how the enemy scoffs, and an impious people reviles your name.
Psm74:19 Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild animals; do not forget the life of your poor forever.
Psm74:20 Have regard for your covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of the haunts of violence.
Psm74:21 Do not let the downtrodden be put to shame; let the poor and needy praise your name.
Psm74:22 Rise up, O God, plead your cause; remember how the impious scoff at you all day long.
Psm74:23 Do not forget the clamor of your foes, the uproar of your adversaries that goes up continually.