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74:1  God, why have you abandoned us forever? Why does your anger smolder at the sheep of your own pasture?
74:2  Remember your congregation that you took as your own long ago, that you redeemed to be the tribe of your own possession— remember Mount Zion, where you dwell.
74:3  March to the unending ruins, to all that the enemy destroyed in the sanctuary.
74:4  Your enemies roared in your own meeting place; they set up their own signs there!
74:5  It looked like axes raised against a thicket of trees.
74:6  And then all its carvings they hacked down with hatchet and pick.
74:7  They set fire to your sanctuary, burned it to the ground; they defiled the dwelling place of your name.
74:8  They said in their hearts, We’ll kill all of them together! They burned all of God’s meeting places in the land.
74:9  We don’t see our own signs anymore. No prophet is left. And none of us know how long it will last.
74:10  How long, God, will foes insult you? Are enemies going to abuse your name forever?
74:11  Why do you pull your hand back? Why do you hold your strong hand close to your chest?
74:12  Yet God has been my king from ancient days— God, who makes salvation happen in the heart of the earth!
74:13  You split the sea with your power. You shattered the heads of the sea monsters on the water.
74:14  You crushed Leviathan’s heads. You gave it to the desert dwellers for food!
74:15  You split open springs and streams; you made strong-flowing rivers dry right up.
74:16  The day belongs to you! The night too! You established both the moon and the sun.
74:17  You set all the boundaries of the earth in place. Summer and winter? You made them!
74:18  So remember this, Lord: how enemies have insulted you, how unbelieving fools have abused your name.
74:19  Don’t deliver the life of your dove to wild animals! Don’t forget the lives of your afflicted people forever!
74:20  Consider the covenant! Because the land’s dark places are full of violence.
74:21  Don’t let the oppressed live in shame. No, let the poor and needy praise your name!
74:22  God, rise up! Make your case! Remember how unbelieving fools insult you all day long.
74:23  Don’t forget the voices of your enemies, the racket of your adversaries that never quits.