Psalms 74
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Psalm 74
A maskil #74:0 Unknown musical term. by Asaph.
1Why, O God, have you rejected us forever?
Why does your anger
smolder against the sheep in your care?
2Remember your congregation.
Long ago you made it your own.
You bought this tribe to be your possession.
This tribe is Mount Zion, where you have made your home.
3Turn your steps toward these pathetic ruins.
The enemy has destroyed everything in the holy temple.
4Your opponents have roared inside your meeting place.
They have set up their own emblems as symbols.
5Starting from its entrance, they hacked away
like a woodcutter in a forest.
6They smashed all its carved paneling with axes and hatchets.
7They burned your holy place to the ground.
They dishonored the place where you live among us.
8They said to themselves, “We will crush them.”
They burned every meeting place of God in the land.
9We no longer see miraculous signs.
There are no prophets anymore.
No one knows how long this will last.
10How long, O God, will the enemy insult us?
Will the enemy despise you forever?
11Why do you hold back your hand, especially your right hand?
Take your hands out of your pockets.
Destroy your enemies!
12And yet, from long ago God has been my king,
the one who has been victorious throughout the earth.
13You stirred up the sea with your own strength.
You smashed the heads of sea monsters in the water.
14You crushed the heads of Leviathan
and gave them to the creatures of the desert for food.
15You opened the springs and brooks.
You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.
16The day and the night are yours.
You set the moon and the sun in their places.
17You determined all the boundaries of the earth.
You created summer and winter.
18Remember how the enemy insulted you, O Lord.
Remember how an entire nation of godless fools despised your name.
19Do not hand over the soul of your dove to wild animals.
Do not forget the life of your oppressed people forever.
20Consider your promise #74:20 Or “covenant.”
because every dark corner of the land is filled with violence.
21Do not let oppressed people come back in disgrace.
Let weak and needy people praise your name.
22Arise, O God!
Fight for your own cause!
Remember how godless fools insult you all day long.
23Do not forget the shouting of your opponents.
Do not forget the uproar made by those who attack you.
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Psalms 74
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Psalm 74
An Appeal against the Devastation of the Land by the Enemy.
A skillful song, or a didactic or reflective poem, of Asaph.
1O God, why have You rejected us forever?
Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?
2Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old,
Which You have redeemed to be the tribe of Your inheritance;
Remember Mount Zion, where You have dwelt.
3Turn your footsteps [quickly] toward the perpetual ruins;
The enemy has damaged everything within the sanctuary.
4In the midst of Your meeting place Your enemies have roared [with their battle cry];
They have set up their own emblems for signs [of victory].
5It seems as if one had lifted up
An axe in a forest of trees [to set a record of destruction].
6And now all the carved work [of the meeting place]
They smash with hatchets and hammers.
7They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground;
They have profaned the dwelling place of Your #74:7 See note Deut 12:5.name.
8They said in their heart, “Let us completely subdue them.”
They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
9We do not see our symbols;
There is no longer any prophet [to guide us],
Nor does any among us know for how long.
10O God, how long will the adversary scoff?
Is the enemy to revile Your name forever?
11Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand [from judging the enemy]?
Remove Your hand from Your chest, destroy them!
12¶Yet God is my King of old,
Working salvation in the midst of the earth.
13You divided the [Red] Sea by Your strength;
You broke the heads of the #74:13 Symbolic of Egypt’s power.sea monsters in the waters. [Ex 14:21]
14You crushed the heads of #74:14 See note Job 41:1.Leviathan (Egypt);
You gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness. [Job 41:1]
15You broke open fountains and streams;
You dried up ever-flowing rivers. [Ex 17:6; Num 20:11; Josh 3:13]
16The day is Yours, the night also is Yours;
You have established and prepared the [heavenly] light and the sun.
17You have defined and established all the borders of the earth [the divisions of land and sea and of the nations];
You have made summer and winter. [Acts 17:26]
18¶Remember this, O Lord, the enemy has scoffed,
And a foolish and impious people has spurned Your name.
19Oh, do not hand over the soul of your turtledove to the wild beast;
Do not forget the life of Your afflicted forever.
20Consider the covenant [You made with Abraham],
For the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
21Let not the oppressed return dishonored;
Let the afflicted and needy praise Your name.
22¶Arise, O God, plead Your own cause;
Remember how the foolish man scoffs at You all day long.
23Do not forget the [clamoring] voices of Your adversaries,
The uproar of those who rise against You, which ascends continually [to Your ears].
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