Psalm 74:1WEB
God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
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A contemplation by Asaph.
Psalm 74:1WEB
God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
Psalm 74:2WEB
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.
Psalm 74:3WEB
Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
Psalm 74:4WEB
Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.
Psalm 74:5WEB
They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.
Psalm 74:6WEB
Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.
Psalm 74:7WEB
They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
Psalm 74:8WEB
They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
Psalm 74:9WEB
We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
Psalm 74:10WEB
How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
Psalm 74:11WEB
Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it from your chest and consume them!
Psalm 74:12WEB
Yet God is my King of old, working salvation throughout the earth.
Psalm 74:13WEB
You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
Psalm 74:14WEB
You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.
Psalm 74:15WEB
You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.
Psalm 74:16WEB
The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.
Psalm 74:17WEB
You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.
Psalm 74:18WEB
Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 74:19WEB
Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.
Psalm 74:20WEB
Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
Psalm 74:21WEB
Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.
Psalm 74:22WEB
Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
Psalm 74:23WEB
Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.