Psalms 74 — KJVCP

Maschil of Asaph.

74Verse 1O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever?
Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
^{Verse 2}Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old;
The rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed;
This mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
^{Verse 3}Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations;
Even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
^{Verse 4}Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations;
They set up their ensigns for signs.
^{Verse 5}A man was famous according as he had lifted up
Axes upon the thick trees.
^{Verse 6}But now they break down the carved work thereof
At once with axes and hammers.
^{Verse 7}They have cast fire into thy sanctuary,
They have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
^{Verse 8}They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together:
They have burnt up all the synagogues of God in the land.
^{Verse 9}We see not our signs:
There is no more any prophet:
Neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
^{Verse 10}O God, how long shall the adversary reproach?
Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
^{Verse 11}Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand?
Pluck it out of thy bosom.
^{Verse 12}For God is my King of old,
Working salvation in the midst of the earth.
^{Verse 13}Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength:
Thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
^{Verse 14}Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces,
And gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
^{Verse 15}Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood:
Thou driedst up mighty rivers.
^{Verse 16}The day is thine, the night also is thine:
Thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
^{Verse 17}Thou hast set all the borders of the earth:
Thou hast made summer and winter.
^{Verse 18}Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Lord,
And that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
^{Verse 19}O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked:
Forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
^{Verse 20}Have respect unto the covenant:
For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
^{Verse 21}O let not the oppressed return ashamed:
Let the poor and needy praise thy name.
^{Verse 22}Arise, O God, plead thine own cause:
Remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
^{Verse 23}Forget not the voice of thine enemies:
The tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.