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