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| Psalms 74: (ASV) |
| 1) O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? |
| 2) 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. |
| 3) Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins, All the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary. |
| 4) Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine assembly; They have set up their ensigns for signs. |
| 5) They seemed as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket of trees. |
| 6) And now all the carved work thereof They break down with hatchet and hammers. |
| 7) They have set thy sanctuary on fire; They have profaned the dwelling-place of thy name by casting it to the ground. |
| 8) They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether: They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land. |
| 9) We see not our signs: There is no more any prophet; Neither is there among us any that knoweth how long. |
| 10) How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever? |
| 11) Why drawest thou back thy hand, even thy right hand? Pluck it out of thy bosom and consume them. |
| 12) Yet God is my King of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth. |
| 13) Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: Thou brakest the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters. |
| 14) Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces; Thou gavest him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness. |
| 15) Thou didst cleave fountain and flood: Thou driedst up mighty rivers. |
| 16) The day is thine, the night also is thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun. |
| 17) Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: Thou hast made summer and winter. |
| 18) Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name. |
| 19) Oh deliver not the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast: Forget not the life of thy poor for ever. |
| 20) Have respect unto the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence. |
| 21) Oh let not the oppressed return ashamed: Let the poor and needy praise thy name. |
| 22) Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: Remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day. |
| 23) Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: The tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually. |