Bible, King James Version
Psalms
Pss.74
[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.
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