Psalms 74:1-7

¹Maschil of Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thy anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

²Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old: the rod of thy inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, in which thou hast dwelt.

³Lift up thy feet to the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

⁴Thy enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.

⁵A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

⁶But now they break down the carved work of it at once with axes and hammers.

⁷They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling-place of thy name to the ground.