74:1
74:2
Remember thy congregation, [which] thou hast purchased of
old; the rod of thine inheritance, [which] thou hast redeemed;
this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
74:3
Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; [even] all
[that] the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
74:4
Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they
set up their ensigns [for] signs.
74:5
[A man] was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon
the thick trees.
74:6
But now they break down the carved work thereof at once
with axes and hammers.
74:7
They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled
[by casting down] the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
74:8
They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together:
they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
74:9
We see not our signs: [there is] no more any prophet:
neither [is there] among us any that knoweth how long.
74:10
O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the
enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
74:11
Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck
[it] out of thy bosom.
74:12
For God [is] my King of old, working salvation in the
midst of the earth.
74:13
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest
the heads of the dragons in the waters.
74:14
Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, [and]
gavest him [to be] meat to the people inhabiting the
wilderness.
74:15
Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst
up mighty rivers.
74:16
The day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast
prepared the light and the sun.
74:17
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made
summer and winter.
74:18
Remember this, [that] the enemy hath reproached, O LORD,
and [that] the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
74:19
O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the
multitude [of the wicked]: forget not the congregation of thy
poor for ever.
74:20
Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the
earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
74:21
O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and
needy praise thy name.
74:22
Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the
foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
74:23
Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those
that rise up against thee increaseth continually.
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