74:2 Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old, the rod of Your inheritance which You have redeemed; this Mount Zion in which You have dwelt. |
74:3 Lift up Your feet unto the perpetual ruins; all this destruction the enemy has done in the sanctuary. |
74:4 Your enemies roar in the midst of Your congregation; they set up their own banners for signs. |
74:5 They seem like men who lifted up their axes against the thick trees. |
74:6 With axes and hammers, they strike down all its carved idols at once. |
74:7 They burned Your sanctuary to the ground; they defiled the dwelling place of Your name. |
74:8 They said in their hearts, "Together let us rage against them;" they have burned up all God's meeting places in the land. |
74:9 We did not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet; neither is there among us any who knows how long. |
74:10 O God, how long shall the adversary speak evil? Shall the enemy blaspheme Your name forever? |
74:11 Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand? Draw it out of Your bosom and consume them, |
74:12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth, |
74:13 You divide the sea by Your strength; You break the heads of the sea monsters in the waters. |
74:14 You crushed the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gave him to be food to the people living in the wilderness. |
74:15 You break open the fountain and the flood; You dry up mighty rivers. |
74:16 The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have established the light and the sun. |
74:17 You have set all the boundaries of the earth; You have made summer and winter. |
74:18 Remember this—that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and the foolish people have blasphemed Your name. |
74:19 O deliver not the life of Your turtledove unto the wild beasts; forget not the lives of Your afflicted people forever. |
74:20 Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the houses of cruelty. |
74:21 Oh, let not the oppressed ones return ashamed; let the poor and needy praise Your name. |
74:22 Arise, O God, plead Your own cause; remember how the foolish man reproaches You daily. |
74:23 Forget not the voice of Your enemies; the noise of those who rise up against You increases continually. |