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psalms 74
1 - God, why have you rejected us forever?Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
2 - Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old,which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance;Mount Zion, in which you have lived.
3 - Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins,all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
4 - Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly.They have set up their standards as signs.
5 - They behaved like men wielding axes,cutting through a thicket of trees.
6 - Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.
7 - They have burned your sanctuary to the ground.They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
8 - They said in their heart, "We will crush them completely."They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
9 - We see no miraculous signs.There is no longer any prophet,neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
10 - How long, God, shall the adversary reproach?Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
11 - Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand?Take it from your chest and consume them!
12 - Yet God is my King of old,working salvation throughout the earth.
13 - You divided the sea by your strength.You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
14 - You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces.You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.
15 - You opened up spring and stream.You dried up mighty rivers.
16 - The day is yours, the night is also yours.You have prepared the light and the sun.
17 - You have set all the boundaries of the earth.You have made summer and winter.
18 - Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, The LORD.Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
19 - Don't deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts.Don't forget the life of your poor forever.
20 - Honor your covenant,for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
21 - Don't let the oppressed return ashamed.Let the poor and needy praise your name.
22 - Arise, God! Plead your own cause.Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
23 - Don't forget the voice of your adversaries.The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.
