jps - 74

jps@Psalms:74:1 @ Maschil of Asaph. Why, O God, hast Thou cast us off for ever? Why doth Thine anger smoke against the flock of Thy pasture?

jps@Psalms:74:2 @ Remember Thy congregation, which Thou hast gotten of old, which Thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of Thine inheritance; and mount Zion, wherein Thou hast dwelt.

jps@Psalms:74:3 @ Lift up Thy steps because of the perpetual ruins, even all the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.

jps@Psalms:74:4 @ Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of Thy meeting-place; they have set up their own signs for signs.

jps@Psalms:74:5 @ It seemed as when men wield upwards axes in a thicket of trees.

jps@Psalms:74:6 @ And now all the carved work thereof together they strike down with hatchet and hammers.

jps@Psalms:74:7 @ They have set Thy sanctuary on fire; they have profaned the dwelling-place of Thy name even to the ground.

jps@Psalms:74:8 @ They said in their heart: 'Let us make havoc of them altogether'; they have burned up all the meeting-places of God in the land.

jps@Psalms:74:9 @ We see not our signs; there is no more any prophet; neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

jps@Psalms:74:10 @ How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme Thy name for ever?

jps@Psalms:74:11 @ Why withdrawest Thou Thy hand, even Thy right hand? Draw it out of Thy bosom and consume them.

jps@Psalms:74:12 @ Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

jps@Psalms:74:13 @ Thou didst break the sea in pieces by Thy strength; Thou didst shatter the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.

jps@Psalms:74:14 @ Thou didst crush the heads of leviathan, Thou gavest him to be food to the folk inhabiting the wilderness.

jps@Psalms:74:15 @ Thou didst cleave fountain and brook; Thou driedst up ever-flowing rivers.

jps@Psalms:74:16 @ Thine is the day, Thine also the night; Thou hast established luminary and sun.

jps@Psalms:74:17 @ Thou hast set all the borders of the earth; Thou hast made summer and winter.

jps@Psalms:74:18 @ Remember this, how the enemy hath reproached the LORD, and how a base people have blasphemed Thy name.

jps@Psalms:74:19 @ O deliver not the soul of Thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the life of Thy poor for ever.

jps@Psalms:74:20 @ Look upon the covenant; for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.

jps@Psalms:74:21 @ O let not the oppressed turn back in confusion; let the poor and needy praise Thy name.

jps@Psalms:74:22 @ Arise, O God, plead Thine own cause; remember Thy reproach all the day at the hand of the base man.

jps@Psalms:74:23 @ Forget not the voice of Thine adversaries, the tumult of those that rise up against Thee which ascendeth continually.

Psalms 74