nsb - Psalms:74

nsb@Psalms:74:1 @ God, why have you rejected us forever? Why do you smoke with anger against the sheep of your pasture?

nsb@Psalms:74:2 @ 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.

nsb@Psalms:74:3 @ Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.

nsb@Psalms:74:4 @ Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.

nsb@Psalms:74:5 @ They behaved like men wielding axes cutting through a thicket of trees.

nsb@Psalms:74:6 @ They strike down all its carved work with hatchet and hammers.

nsb@Psalms:74:7 @ They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling-place of your name.

nsb@Psalms:74:8 @ They said in their hearts: »We will destroy them completely. They burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.«

nsb@Psalms:74:9 @ We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet. There is no one who knows how long.

nsb@Psalms:74:10 @ How long, God, will the adversary reproach? Will the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

nsb@Psalms:74:11 @ Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it out of your pocket and consume them!

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

nsb@Psalms:74:13 @ You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.

nsb@Psalms:74:14 @ You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.

nsb@Psalms:74:15 @ You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.

nsb@Psalms:74:16 @ The day and the night are yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.

nsb@Psalms:74:17 @ You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.

nsb@Psalms:74:18 @ Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Jehovah. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.

nsb@Psalms:74:19 @ Do not deliver your turtledove to wild beasts. Do not forget the life of your poor forever.

nsb@Psalms:74:20 @ Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.

nsb@Psalms:74:21 @ Do not let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.

nsb@Psalms:74:22 @ Arise, O God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man treats you with contempt all day.

nsb@Psalms:74:23 @ Do not forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.