Psalms Chapter 74

• Psalms 74:1
  Psalms.
• Psalms 74:2
  A contemplation by Asaph. God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
• Psalms 74:3
  Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance: Mount Zion, in which you have liv...
• Psalms 74:4
  Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
• Psalms 74:5
  Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.
• Psalms 74:6
  They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.
• Psalms 74:7
  Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.
• Psalms 74:8
  They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
• Psalms 74:9
  They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
• Psalms 74:10
  We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
• Psalms 74:11
  How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
• Psalms 74:12
  Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it from your chest and consume them!
• Psalms 74:13
  Yet God is my King of old, working salvation throughout the earth.
• Psalms 74:14
  You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
• Psalms 74:15
  You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.
• Psalms 74:16
  You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.
• Psalms 74:17
  The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.
• Psalms 74:18
  You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.
• Psalms 74:19
  Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, LORD. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
• Psalms 74:20
  Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.
• Psalms 74:21
  Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
• Psalms 74:22
  Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.
• Psalms 74:23
  Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
• Psalms 74:24
  Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.