Psalms 74:1-5

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,