Psalms 74:5-16

⁵hacking, like woodsmen who lift axes on thickets of trees,

⁶smashing with hatchets and hammers all of its carved work together.

⁷They have set your temple on fire, to the very ground they have outraged the place where lives your name.

⁸They have said in their heart, “Let us utterly crush them.” They have burnt all the houses of God in the land.

⁹No symbol of ours do we see any more: no prophet is there any more, none is with us who knows how long.

¹⁰How long, O God, is the foe to insult? Shall the enemy spurn your name forever?

¹¹Why, O Lord, do you hold back your hand, why keep your right hand in the folds of your robe?

¹²Yet God is our king from the ancient days, in the midst of the earth working deeds of salvation.

¹³It was you who did cleave the sea by your might, and shatter the heads of the ocean monsters.

¹⁴It was you who did crush many-headed Leviathan, and give him as food to the beasts of the wilderness.

¹⁵It was you who did cleave the fountains and torrents; it was you who did dry the perennial streams.

¹⁶Yours is the day; yours, too, is the night, it was you who did establish the sun and the star.