Psalms 74

1[Maschil of Asaph.] O Elohim, why hast you cast off for ever? does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture? 2Remember your congregation, you hast purchased of old; the rod of your inheritance, you hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein you hast dwelt. 3Lift up your feet unto the perpetual desolations; all the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary. 4your enemies roar in the midst of your congregations; they set up their ensigns signs. 5was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees. 6But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers. 7They have cast fire into your sanctuary, they have defiled the dwelling place of your name to the ground. 8They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of Elohim in the land. 9We see not our signs: no more any prophet: neither among us any that knoweth how long. 10O Elohim, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme your name for ever? 11Why withdrawest you your hand, even your right hand? pluck out of your bosom. 12For Elohim my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. 13you didst divide the sea by your strength: you brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. 14you brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, gavest him meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness. 15you didst cleave the fountain and the flood: you driedst up mighty rivers. 16The day your, the night also your: you hast prepared the light and the sun. 17you hast set all the borders of the earth: you hast made summer and winter. 18Remember this, the enemy has reproached, O Yahuah, and the foolish people have blasphemed your name. 19O deliver not the soul of your turtledove unto the multitude : forget not the congregation of your poor for ever. 20Have respect unto 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 your name. 22Arise, O Elohim, plead your own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth you daily. 23Forget not the voice of your enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against you increaseth continually.