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          DASV: Psalm 74    

A Maskil of Asaph

1 O God, why have you rejected us forever?
     Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
2 Remember your congregation, which you have acquired long ago,
     which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance,
           and Mount Zion, where you dwell.
3 Turn your steps to the perpetual heap of rubble,
     all the damage that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.

4 Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly place;
     there they have set up their battle streamers.
5 They seemed like those who swing axes
     in a thicket of trees.
6 Now they have torn down all its carved work
     with hatchets and hammers.
7 They have set your sanctuary on fire;
     they have profaned the dwelling place of your name
           by throwing it to the ground.
8 They said to themselves,
     "Let us totally crush them."
           They have burned up all of God's meeting places in the land.
9 We do not see any signs of deliverance;
     there are no more prophets;
           neither is there anyone among us who knows how long it will last.

10 How long, O God, will the adversary insult you?
     Will the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
11 Why do you withhold your hand, even your right hand?
     Pull it out of your pocket and destroy them.
12 Yet God is my King from ages past,
     working salvation in the earth.
13 You divided the sea by your strength;
     you broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
14 You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces;
     you gave him as food for the desert animals.
15 You split open the springs and streams;
     you dried up perpetual rivers.
16 Both day and night are yours;
     you have fixed the sun and moon in place.

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

18 Remember this, O LORD, how the enemy insulted you,
     and that a foolish people has blasphemed your name.
19 Do not deliver the life of your turtledove to the wild beasts;
     do not forget the life of your oppressed forever.
20 Have respect for the covenant,
     for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence.
21 Do not let the oppressed return ashamed;
     let the poor and needy praise your name.
22 Arise, O God, plead your own cause;
     remember how the fools have insulted you all day long.
23 Do not forget the sneers of your adversaries,
     the uproar of those who rise up against you ascends continually.

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