King James VersionPsalms74

Psalms

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