Psalms 74 — GNB
74Verse 1“A psalm of Asaph.” O God! why hast thou cast us off for ever? Why doth thine anger smoke against the flock of thy pasture?Verse 2Remember the people which thou didst purchase of old; Thine own inheritance, which thou didst redeem; That Mount Zion, where thou once didst dwell!Verse 3Hasten thy steps to those utter desolations! Every thing in the sanctuary hath the enemy abused!Verse 4Thine enemies roar in the place of thine assemblies; Their own symbols have they set up for signs.Verse 5They appear like those who raise the axe against a thicket;Verse 6They have broken down the carved work of thy temple with axes and hammers;Verse 7They have cast fire into thy sanctuary; They have profaned, and cast to the ground, the dwelling-place of thy name.Verse 8They said in their hearts, “Let us destroy them all together!” They have burned all God's places of assembly in the land.Verse 9We no longer see our signs; There is no prophet among us, Nor any one that knoweth how long this desolation shall endure.Verse 10How long, O God! shall the adversary revile? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?Verse 11Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? Take it from thy bosom, and destroy!Verse 12Yet God was our king of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth.Verse 13Thou didst divide the sea by thy power; Thou didst crush the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.Verse 14Thou didst break in pieces the head of the crocodile; Thou gavest him for food to the inhabitants of the desert.Verse 15Thou didst cleave forth the fountain and the stream; Thou didst dry up perennial rivers.Verse 16Thine is the day, and thine the night; Thou didst prepare the light and the sun.Verse 17Thou didst establish all the boundaries of the earth; Thou didst make summer and winter.Verse 18O remember that the enemy hath reviled Jehovah; That an impious people hath blasphemed thy name!Verse 19Give not up the life of thy turtle-dove to the wild beast; Forget not for ever thine afflicted people!Verse 20Have regard to thy covenant! For all the dark places of the land are full of the abodes of cruelty.Verse 21O let not the afflicted go away ashamed! Let the poor and needy praise thy name!Verse 22Arise, O God! maintain thy cause! Remember how the impious revileth thee daily!Verse 23Forget not the clamor of thine adversaries,—The noise of thine enemies, which continually increaseth!