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74:1  O God, why do You cast us off forever? Why does Your anger burn and smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?
74:2  [Earnestly] remember Your congregation which You have acquired of old, which You have redeemed to be the tribe of Your heritage; remember Mount Zion, where You have dwelt.
74:3  Direct Your feet [quickly] to the perpetual ruins and desolations; the foe has devastated and desecrated everything in the sanctuary.
74:4  In the midst of Your Holy Place Your enemies have roared [with their battle cry]; they set up their own [idol] emblems for signs [of victory].
74:5  They seemed like men who lifted up axes upon a thicket of trees to make themselves a record.
74:6  And then all the carved wood of the Holy Place they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
74:7  They have set Your sanctuary on fire; they have profaned the dwelling place of Your Name by casting it to the ground.
74:8  They said in their hearts, Let us make havoc [of such places] altogether. They have burned up all God’s meetinghouses in the land.
74:9  We do not see our symbols; there is no longer any prophet, neither does any among us know for how long.
74:10  O God, how long is the adversary to scoff and reproach? Is the enemy to blaspheme and revile Your name forever?
74:11  Why do You hold back Your hand, even Your right hand? Draw it out of Your bosom and consume them [make an end of them]!
74:12  Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
74:13  You did divide the [Red] Sea by Your might; You broke the heads of the [Egyptian] dragons in the waters.
74:14  You crushed the heads of Leviathan (Egypt); You did give him as food for the creatures inhabiting the wilderness.
74:15  You did cleave open [the rock bringing forth] fountains and streams; You dried up mighty, ever-flowing rivers (the Jordan).
74:16  The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have established the [starry] light and the sun.
74:17  You have fixed all the borders of the earth [the divisions of land and sea and of the nations]; You have made summer and winter.
74:18  [Earnestly] remember how the enemy has scoffed, O Lord, and reproached You, and how a foolish and impious people has blasphemed Your name.
74:19  Oh, do not deliver the life of your turtledove to the wild beast (to the greedy multitude); forget not the life [of the multitude] of Your poor forever.
74:20  Have regard for the covenant [You made with Abraham], for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
74:21  Oh, let not the downtrodden return in shame; let the oppressed and needy praise Your name.
74:22  Arise, O God, plead Your own cause; remember [earnestly] how the foolish and impious man scoffs and reproaches You day after day and all day long.
74:23  Do not forget the [clamoring] voices of Your adversaries, the tumult of those who rise up against You, which ascends continually.