Psalms, 74

A masʹkil.^*1 Of Aʹsaph.

¹ Why, O God, have you cast off forever? Why does your anger keep smoking against the flock of your pasturage?

² Remember your assembly that you acquired long ago, The tribe that you redeemed as your inheritance, This Mount Zion in which you have resided.

³ Do lift up your steps to the long-lasting desolations. Everything the enemy has treated badly in the holy place.

⁴ Those showing hostility to you have roared in the middle of your meeting place. They have set their own signs as [the] signs.

⁵ One is notorious in being like him that brings up axes on high against a thicket of trees.

⁶ And now the very engravings of it, one and all, they strike even with hatchet and iron-tipped beams.

⁷ They have thrust your sanctuary into the fire itself. They have profaned the tabernacle of your name to the very earth.

⁸ They, even their offspring, have said together in their own heart: “All the meeting places of God^*1 must be burned in the land.”

⁹ Our signs we have not seen; there is no prophet anymore, And there is no one with us knowing how long.

¹⁰ How long, O God, will the adversary keep reproaching? Will the enemy keep treating your name with disrespect forever?

¹¹ Why do you keep your hand, even your right hand, withdrawn From the midst of your bosom to make an end [of us]?

¹² And yet God is my King from long ago, The One performing grand salvation in the midst of the earth.

¹³ You yourself stirred up the sea with your own strength; You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.

¹⁴ You yourself crushed to pieces the heads of Le·viʹa·than.^*1 You proceeded to give it as food to the people, to those inhabiting the waterless regions.

¹⁵ You were the One that split the spring and the torrent; You yourself dried up ever-flowing rivers.

¹⁶ To you the day belongs; also, to you the night belongs. You yourself prepared the luminary, even the sun.

¹⁷ It was you that set up all the boundaries of the earth; Summer and winter—you yourself formed them.

¹⁸ Remember this: The enemy himself has reproached, O Jehovah, And a senseless people have treated your name with disrespect.

¹⁹ Do not give to the wild beast the soul of your turtledove. Do not forget the very life of your afflicted ones forever.

²⁰ Take a look at the covenant, For the dark places of the earth have become full of the abodes of violence.

²¹ O may the crushed one not return humiliated. May the afflicted one and the poor one praise your name.

²² Do arise, O God, do conduct your own case at law. Remember your reproach from the senseless one all day long.

²³ Do not forget the voice of those showing hostility to you. The noise of those rising up against you is ascending constantly.