| 74.1 |
God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture? |
| 74.2 |
Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; Mount Zion, in which you have lived. |
| 74.3 |
Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary. |
| 74.4 |
Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs. |
| 74.5 |
They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees. |
| 74.6 |
Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers. |
| 74.7 |
They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name. |
| 74.8 |
They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped. |
| 74.9 |
We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long. |
| 74.10 |
How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever? |
| 74.11 |
Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it out of your pocket and consume them! |
| 74.12 |
Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. |
| 74.13 |
You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters. |
| 74.14 |
You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures. |
| 74.15 |
You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers. |
| 74.16 |
The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun. |
| 74.17 |
You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter. |
| 74.18 |
Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name. |
| 74.19 |
Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever. |
| 74.20 |
Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth. |
| 74.21 |
Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name. |
| 74.22 |
Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day. |
| 74.23 |
Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually. |
