Psalm, 74

A masʹkil.^*1 Of Aʹsaph.

¹ Why, O God, have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger burn^*1 against the flock of your pasture?

² Remember the people^*1 you acquired long ago, The tribe you redeemed as your inheritance. Remember Mount Zion, where you have resided.

³ Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins. The enemy has devastated everything in the holy place.

⁴ Your foes roared inside your meeting place.^*1 They have set up their own banners as signs there.

⁵ They were like men wielding axes against a thick forest.

⁶ They broke up all its engravings with axes and iron bars.

⁷ They set your sanctuary on fire. They profaned the tabernacle bearing your name, casting it to the ground.

⁸ They and their offspring have said in their hearts: “All the meeting places of God^*1 in the land must be burned.”

⁹ There are no signs for us to see; There is no longer any prophet, And no one among us knows how long this will last.

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

¹¹ Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand? Draw it out of your bosom^*1 and put an end to them.

¹² But God is my King from long ago, The one performing acts of salvation on the earth.

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

¹⁴ You crushed the heads of Le·viʹa·than;^*1 You gave it as food to the people, to those inhabiting the deserts.

¹⁵ You cut openings for the springs and the streams; You dried up ever-flowing rivers.

¹⁶ The day belongs to you, also the night. You made the light^*1 and the sun.

¹⁷ You set up all the boundaries of the earth; You made summer and winter.

¹⁸ Remember the enemy’s taunts, O Jehovah, How a foolish people treats your name with disrespect.

¹⁹ Do not surrender the life^*1 of your turtledove to the wild beasts. Do not forget the life of your afflicted people forever.

²⁰ Remember the covenant, For the dark places of the earth have become full of the haunts of violence.

²¹ May the crushed one not turn away disappointed; May the lowly and the poor praise your name.

²² Rise up, O God, and plead your legal case. Remember how the foolish taunt you all day long.

²³ Do not forget what your foes are saying. The uproar of those who defy you is ascending constantly.