Psalms 74:12-23

¹²Since thou God art my King from olden days, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

¹³It was thou that didst divide by thy strength the sea: thou brokest in pieces the heads of the crocodiles on the waters.

¹⁴Thou didst crush the heads of leviathan, and gavest them as food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

¹⁵Thou didst cleave fountain and stream: thou didst dry up ever-flowing rivers.

¹⁶Thine is the day and thine is the night: it is thou who hast prepared the luminary and the sun.

¹⁷It is thou who hast set up all the boundaries of the earth: summer and winter—thou thyself hast formed them.

¹⁸Remember this, that the enemy hath defied the Lord, and that a worthless foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

¹⁹Oh give not up unto the multitude of enemies the soul of thy turtle-dove: the congregation of thy afflicted do not thou forget for ever.

²⁰Look unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of habitations of violence.

²¹Oh let not the oppressed return confounded: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

²²Arise, O God, plead thy own cause: remember thy defiance from the worthless fool all the day.

²³Forget not the voice of thy adversaries: the tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually.