Psalms 74:3-23

³Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.

⁴Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs for signs.

⁵A man was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees;

⁶And now they break down its carved work altogether, with hatchets and hammers.

⁷They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitation of thy name to the ground.

⁸They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all God's places of assembly in the land.

⁹We see not our signs; there is no more any prophet, neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

¹⁰How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy contemn thy name for ever?

¹¹Why withdrawest thou thy hand, and thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom: consume them.

¹²But God is my king of old, accomplishing deliverances in the midst of the earth.

¹³Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst break the heads of the monsters on the waters:

¹⁴Thou didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert.

¹⁵Thou didst cleave fountain and torrent, thou driedst up ever-flowing rivers.

¹⁶The day is thine, the night also is thine; thou hast prepared the moon and the sun:

¹⁷Thou hast set all the borders of the earth; summer and winter — thou didst form them.

¹⁸Remember this, that an enemy hath reproached Jehovah, and a foolish people have contemned thy name.

¹⁹Give not up the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the troop of thine afflicted for ever.

²⁰Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence.

²¹Oh let not the oppressed one return ashamed; let the afflicted and needy praise thy name.

²²Rise up, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day;

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