74:1Why, O God, hast thou cast off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

74:2Remember thine assembly, which thou hast purchased of old, which thou hast redeemed to be the portion of thine inheritance, this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

74:3Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.

74:4Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs for signs.

74:5A man was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees;

74:6And now they break down its carved work altogether, with hatchets and hammers.

74:7They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitation of thy name to the ground.

74:8They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all *God's places of assembly in the land.

74:9We see not our signs; there is no more any prophet, neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

74:10How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy contemn thy name for ever?

74:11Why withdrawest thou thy hand, and thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom: consume them.

74:12But God is my king of old, accomplishing deliverances in the midst of the earth.

74:13*Thou* didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst break the heads of the monsters on the waters:

74:14*Thou* didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert.

74:15*Thou* didst cleave fountain and torrent, *thou* driedst up ever-flowing rivers.

74:16The day is thine, the night also is thine; *thou* hast prepared the moon and the sun:

74:17*Thou* hast set all the borders of the earth; summer and winter -- *thou* didst form them.

74:18Remember this, that an enemy hath reproached Jehovah, and a foolish people have contemned thy name.

74:19Give not up the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the troop of thine afflicted for ever.

74:20Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence.

74:21Oh let not the oppressed one return ashamed; let the afflicted and needy praise thy name.

74:22Rise up, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day;

74:23Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: the tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually.