Psalms 74:7-21

⁷They have cast fire into thy sanctuary; They have profaned, and cast to the ground, the dwelling-place of thy name.

⁸They said in their hearts, “Let us destroy them all together!” They have burned all God's places of assembly in the land.

⁹We no longer see our signs; There is no prophet among us, Nor any one that knoweth how long this desolation shall endure.

¹⁰How long, O God! shall the adversary revile? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

¹¹Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? Take it from thy bosom, and destroy!

¹²Yet God was our king of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth.

¹³Thou didst divide the sea by thy power; Thou didst crush the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.

¹⁴Thou didst break in pieces the head of the crocodile; Thou gavest him for food to the inhabitants of the desert.

¹⁵Thou didst cleave forth the fountain and the stream; Thou didst dry up perennial rivers.

¹⁶Thine is the day, and thine the night; Thou didst prepare the light and the sun.

¹⁷Thou didst establish all the boundaries of the earth; Thou didst make summer and winter.

¹⁸O remember that the enemy hath reviled Jehovah; That an impious people hath blasphemed thy name!

¹⁹Give not up the life of thy turtle-dove to the wild beast; Forget not for ever thine afflicted people!

²⁰Have regard to thy covenant! For all the dark places of the land are full of the abodes of cruelty.

²¹O let not the afflicted go away ashamed! Let the poor and needy praise thy name!