Psalms 74:1-15

¹An instruction: of Asaph. Why, O God, hast thou cast off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

²Remember thine assembly, which thou hast purchased of old, which thou hast redeemed to be the portion of thine inheritance, this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

³Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.

⁴Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs for signs.

⁵A man was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees;

⁶And now they break down its carved work altogether, with hatchets and hammers.

⁷They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitation of thy name to the ground.

⁸They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all God's places of assembly in the land.

⁹We see not our signs; there is no more any prophet, neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

¹⁰How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy contemn thy name for ever?

¹¹Why withdrawest thou thy hand, and thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom: consume them.

¹²But God is my king of old, accomplishing deliverances in the midst of the earth.

¹³Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst break the heads of the monsters on the waters:

¹⁴Thou didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert.

¹⁵Thou didst cleave fountain and torrent, thou driedst up ever-flowing rivers.