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Psalms 74
A Plea For Relief From Oppressors
Maskil Of Aspah

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Psalms 74
King James Version

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.


Arise, O God, Defend Your Cause
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