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