Psalms 74:1-6

¹The learning of Asaph. God, why hast thou put us away into the end; thy strong vengeance is wroth on the sheep of thy pasture?

²Be thou mindful of thy gathering together; which thou haddest in possession from the beginning. Thou again-boughtest the rod of thine heritage; the hill of Zion, in which thou dwelledest therein.

³Raise thine hands into the prides of them; how great things the enemy did wickedly in the holy place.

⁴And they that hated thee; had glory in the midst of thy solemnity. They setted their signs, either banners, to be signs on the highest place, as in the outgoing or going out; and they knew not.

⁵As in a wood of trees, they hewed down with axes the gates thereof into itself;

⁶they casted down it with an ax, and a broad falling ax.