Psalms 74:1 (ASV)
O God, why hast thou cast `us' off for ever? Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

Psalms 74:2 (ASV)
Remember thy congregation, which thou hast gotten of old, Which thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of thine inheritance; `And' mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

Psalms 74:3 (ASV)
Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins, All the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.

Psalms 74:4 (ASV)
Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine assembly; They have set up their ensigns for signs.

Psalms 74:5 (ASV)
They seemed as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket of trees.

Psalms 74:6 (ASV)
And now all the carved work thereof They break down with hatchet and hammers.

Psalms 74:7 (ASV)
They have set thy sanctuary on fire; They have profaned the dwelling-place of thy name `by casting it' to the ground.

Psalms 74:8 (ASV)
They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether: They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

Psalms 74:9 (ASV)
We see not our signs: There is no more any prophet; Neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

Psalms 74:10 (ASV)
How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

Psalms 74:11 (ASV)
Why drawest thou back thy hand, even thy right hand? `Pluck it' out of thy bosom `and' consume `them'.

Psalms 74:12 (ASV)
Yet God is my King of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth.

Psalms 74:13 (ASV)
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: Thou brakest the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.

Psalms 74:14 (ASV)
Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces; Thou gavest him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

Psalms 74:15 (ASV)
Thou didst cleave fountain and flood: Thou driedst up mighty rivers.

Psalms 74:16 (ASV)
The day is thine, the night also is thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

Psalms 74:17 (ASV)
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: Thou hast made summer and winter.

Psalms 74:18 (ASV)
Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.

Psalms 74:19 (ASV)
Oh deliver not the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast: Forget not the life of thy poor for ever.

Psalms 74:20 (ASV)
Have respect unto the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.

Psalms 74:21 (ASV)
Oh let not the oppressed return ashamed: Let the poor and needy praise thy name.

Psalms 74:22 (ASV)
Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: Remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day.

Psalms 74:23 (ASV)
Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: The tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually.
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