Psalms 74:7-23

⁷They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling-place of thy name to the ground.

⁸They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

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

¹⁰O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

¹¹Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.

¹²For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

¹³Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou didst break the heads of the dragons in the waters.

¹⁴Thou didst break the head of leviathan in pieces, and didst give him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

¹⁵Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou didst dry up mighty rivers.

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

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

¹⁸Remember this, the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

¹⁹O deliver not the soul of thy turtle dove to the multitude of the wicked : forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.

²⁰Have respect to the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

²¹O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

²²Arise, O God, plead thy own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.

²³Forget not the voice of thy enemies: the tumult of those that rise against thee increaseth continually.