Psalms:74

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* God , why have you rejected us forever ? Why do you smoke with anger against the sheep of your pasture ? * Remember your congregation , which you purchased long ago . For you have redeemed it to be the tribe of your inheritance , Mount Zion , in which you have lived . * Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins , all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary . * Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly . They have set up their standards as signs . * They behaved like men wielding axes cutting through a thicket of trees . * They strike down all its carved work with hatchet and hammers . * They have burned your sanctuary to the ground . They have profaned the dwelling-place of your name . * They said in their hearts : »We will destroy them completely . They burned up all the synagogues of God in the land .« * We see no miraculous signs . There is no longer any prophet . There is no one who knows how long . * How long , God , will the adversary reproach ? Will the enemy blaspheme your name forever ? * Why do you draw back your hand , even your right hand ? Take it out of your pocket and consume them ! * Yet God is my King of old , working salvation in the middle of the earth . * You divided the sea by your strength . You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters . * You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces . You gave him as food to people and desert creatures . * You opened up spring and stream . You dried up mighty rivers . * The day and the night are yours . You have prepared the light and the sun . * You have set all the boundaries of the earth . You have made summer and winter . * Remember this , that the enemy has mocked you , Jehovah . Foolish people have blasphemed your name . * Do not deliver your turtledove to wild beasts . Do not forget the life of your poor forever . * Honor your covenant , for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth . * Do not let the oppressed return ashamed . Let the poor and needy praise your name . * Arise , O God ! Plead your own cause . Remember how the foolish man treats you with contempt all day . * Do not forget the voice of your adversaries . The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually .

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