Psalms 74:1-11

Why have you rejected us forever, God? Why does your anger burn against the sheep of your pasture?  Remember your congregation, which you purchased long ago and redeemed as the tribe for your own possession.  Remember Mount Zion where you dwell.  Make your way  to the perpetual ruins, to all that the enemy has destroyed in the sanctuary.  Your adversaries roared in the meeting place where you met with us.  They set up their emblems as signs.  It was like men in a thicket of trees, wielding axes,  then smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks.  They set your sanctuary on fire; they utterly  desecrated the dwelling place of your name.  They said in their hearts, “Let’s oppress them relentlessly.” They burned every place throughout the land where God met with us.  , There are no signs for us to see. There is no longer a prophet. And none of us knows how long this will last.  God, how long will the enemy mock? Will the foe insult your name forever?  Why do you hold back your hand? Stretch out  your right hand and destroy them!