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74:1  A Maskil of Asaph. O God, why do you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
74:2  Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage! Remember Mount Zion, where you have dwelt.
74:3  Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!
74:4  Your foes have roared in the midst of your meeting place; they set up their own signs for signs.
74:5  They were like those who swing axes in a forest of trees.
74:6  And all its carved wood they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
74:7  They set your sanctuary on fire; they profaned the dwelling place of your name, bringing it down to the ground.
74:8  They said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”; they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
74:9  We do not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet, and there is none among us who knows how long.
74:10  How long, O God, is the foe to scoff? Is the enemy to revile your name forever?
74:11  Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand? Take it from the fold of your garment and destroy them!
74:12  Yet God my King is from of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
74:13  You divided the sea by your might; you broke the heads of the sea monsters on the waters.
74:14  You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
74:15  You split open springs and brooks; you dried up ever-flowing streams.
74:16  Yours is the day, yours also the night; you have established the heavenly lights and the sun.
74:17  You have fixed all the boundaries of the earth; you have made summer and winter.
74:18  Remember this, O LORD, how the enemy scoffs, and a foolish people reviles your name.
74:19  Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild beasts; do not forget the life of your poor forever.
74:20  Have regard for the covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
74:21  Let not the downtrodden turn back in shame; let the poor and needy praise your name.
74:22  Arise, O God, defend your cause; remember how the foolish scoff at you all the day!
74:23  Do not forget the clamor of your foes, the uproar of those who rise against you, which goes up continually!