Psalms 74:8-22

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.

¹⁷It was you who did fix all the borders of earth: summer and winter it's you who have made them.

¹⁸Yet, for all this, the foe has insulted you, Lord, and a nation of fools has reviled your name.

¹⁹Do not give your dove to the beasts, do not forget your afflicted forever.

²⁰Look to the sleek ones - how full they are: the dark places of earth are the dwellings of violence.

²¹O let not the downtrodden turn back ashamed: let the poor and the needy sing praise to your name.

²²Arise, God, and defend your cause: remember how fools all the day insult you.