Psalms 74:1-10

¹A maskil of Asaph. Why, O God, have you spurned us forever? Why smokes your wrath against the sheep of your pasture?

²Remember the community you purchased of old to become by redemption the tribe of your heritage, Zion, the mountain you made your home.

³Rouse yourself, visit its ruins complete. In the temple the foe has made havoc of all things.

⁴Like lions your enemies roared through your house, replacing our symbols by signs of their own,

⁵hacking, like woodsmen who lift axes on thickets of trees,

⁶smashing with hatchets and hammers all of its carved work together.

⁷They have set your temple on fire, to the very ground they have outraged the place where lives your name.

⁸They have said in their heart, “Let us utterly crush them.” They have burnt all the houses of God in the land.

⁹No symbol of ours do we see any more: no prophet is there any more, none is with us who knows how long.

¹⁰How long, O God, is the foe to insult? Shall the enemy spurn your name forever?