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74:1  A contemplative song of Asaph. Why have You cast us off forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the flock of Your pasture?
74:2  Remember Your congregation, which You purchased of old, redeemed as the tribe of Your inheritance, and Mount Zion, where You dwelt.
74:3  Lift Your steps toward the perpetual ruins— an enemy has done all evil to the Sanctuary!
74:4  Your adversaries have roared in the midst of Your meeting place. They have set up their standards as signs.
74:5  It seemed like bringing up axes into a thicket of trees—
74:6  and now all its carved work they smash with hatchet and hammers!
74:7  They set Your Sanctuary on fire, burning it to the ground. They defiled the dwelling place of Your Name.
74:8  They said in their hearts: “Let us crush them totally!” They burned down all the meeting places of God in the land.
74:9  We do not see our signs. No longer is there any prophet— and no one among us knows how long.
74:10  How long, O God, will the adversary mock? Will the enemy revile Your Name forever?
74:11  Why do You hold back Your hand, Your right hand? Draw it out of Your bosom and consume them!
74:12  Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the land.
74:13  You split the sea with Your power. You smashed the monsters’ heads in the waters.
74:14  You crushed the heads of Leviathan, giving him as food to the desert dwellers.
74:15  You opened up spring and brook. You dried up ever-flowing rivers.
74:16  The day is Yours, the night also is Yours. You provided moon and sun.
74:17  You set all the borders of earth. You made summer and winter.
74:18  Remember how the enemy mocked, Adonai, and how foolish people despised Your Name.
74:19  Do not deliver Your turtledove’s soul to the wild beast. Do not forget the life of Your afflicted ones forever.
74:20  Look upon the covenant—for haunts of violence fill the dark places of earth.
74:21  Do not let the oppressed turn back in shame. But let the poor and needy praise Your Name.
74:22  Rise up O God, and defend Your cause. Remember how the fool mocks You all day.
74:23  Do not forget the noise of Your foes, the uproar of those rising up against You, ascending continually.