Psalms:74

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* O God , why have you cast us off for ever ? why does yours anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture ? * Remember your congregation , which you have purchased of old ; the rod of yours inheritance , which you have redeemed ; this mount Zion , wherein you have dwelt . * Lift up your feet unto the perpetual desolations ; even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary . * Yours enemies roar in the midst of your congregations ; they set up their ensigns for signs . * A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees . * But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers . * They have cast fire into your sanctuary , they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of your name to the ground . * They said in their hearts , Let us destroy them together : they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land . * We see not our signs : there is no more any prophet : neither is there among us any that knows how long . * O God , how long shall the adversary reproach ? shall the enemy blaspheme your name for ever ? * Why withdraw you your hand , even your right hand ? pluck it out of your bosom . * For God is my King of old , working salvation in the midst of the earth . * You did divide the sea by your strength : you brake the heads of the dragons in the waters . * You brake the heads of leviathan (p . sea serpent ) in pieces , and gave him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness . * You did cleave the fountain and the flood : you dried up mighty rivers . * The day is yours , the night also is yours : you have prepared the light and the sun . * You have set all the borders of the earth : you have made summer and winter . * Remember this , that the enemy has reproached , O LORD , and that the foolish people have blasphemed your name . * O deliver not the soul of your turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked : forget not the congregation of your poor for ever . * Have respect unto the covenant : for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty . * O let not the oppressed return ashamed : let the poor and needy praise your name . * Arise , O God , plead yours own cause : remember how the foolish man reproaches you daily . * Forget not the voice of yours enemies : the tumult of those that rise up against you increases continually .

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