Psalms 74:3-18

³Lift vp thy strokes, that thou mayest for euer destroy euery enemie that doeth euill to the Sanctuarie.

⁴Thine aduersaries roare in the middes of thy Congregation, and set vp their banners for signes.

⁵He that lifted the axes vpon the thicke trees, was renowmed, as one, that brought a thing to perfection:

⁶But nowe they breake downe the carued worke thereof with axes and hammers.

⁷They haue cast thy Sanctuarie into the fire, and rased it to the grounde, and haue defiled the dwelling place of thy Name.

⁸They saide in their hearts, Let vs destroy them altogether: they haue burnt all the Synagogues of God in the land.

⁹We see not our signes: there is not one Prophet more, nor any with vs that knoweth howe long.

¹⁰O God, howe long shall the aduersarie reproche thee? shall the enemie blaspheme thy Name for euer?

¹¹Why withdrawest thou thine hand, euen thy right hand? drawe it out of thy bosome, and consume them.

¹²Euen God is my King of olde, working saluation in the middes of the earth.

¹³Thou didest deuide the sea by thy power: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

¹⁴Thou brakest the head of Liuiathan in pieces, and gauest him to be meate for the people in wildernesse.

¹⁵Thou brakest vp the fountaine and riuer: thou dryedst vp mightie riuers.

¹⁶The day is thine, and the night is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sunne.

¹⁷Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.

¹⁸Remember this, that the enemie hath reproched the Lord, and the foolish people hath blasphemed thy Name.