Psalms 74 Of understanding. By Asaph. O GOD, why hast thou utterly cast off? Why is thy wrath extreme against the sheep of thy pasture?

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Of understanding. By Asaph. O GOD, why hast thou utterly cast off? Why is thy wrath extreme against the sheep of thy pasture? ² Remember thy congregation which thou hast purchased of old; this portion of thine inheritance which thou hast redeemed; this mount Sion on which thou hast dwelt. ³ Lift up thy hands against their perpetual haughtiness; for all that the enemy hath wickedly done in thy Holies. ⁴ They who hate thee have indeed triumphed: in the midst of thy festival they set up their own signs: ⁵ The signs pointing to the entrance above they did not know. As if in a forest of trees, ⁶ they cut down with axes the doors of that entrance. Then with hatchets and mattocks they broke it down. ⁷ They burned thy sanctuary to the ground with fire: they profaned the habitation of thy name. ⁸ They said, The whole brood of them are in their heart set upon this: come, let us cause to cease from the land the festivals of the Lord. ⁹ The signs peculiarly ours we do not see: there is no more a prophet; nor will he any more acknowledge us. ¹⁰ How long O God, shall the enemy reproach? Shall the adversary blaspheme thy name forever? ¹¹ Why dost thou withdraw thy hand? Let thy right hand be ever out of thy bosom. ¹² God was indeed our king of old. He wrought deliverance in the midst of this land. ¹³ Thou by thy power didst exercise dominion over the sea: thou didst crush the heads of the dragons in the water. ¹⁴ Thou didst crush the heads of the dragon: thou gavest him to be meat for the Ethiopean tribes. ¹⁵ Thou didst cause springs and torrents to burst forth. Thou didst dry up the rivers of Etham. ¹⁶ Thine is the day and the night is thine: it is thou who preparedst the sun and moon. ¹⁷ Thou hast made all the borders of the earth: summer and spring were made by thee. ¹⁸ Remember this creation of thine. An enemy hath reproached the Lord; a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name. ¹⁹ Deliver not up to the wild beasts a soul which praiseth thee. Forget not forever the souls of thy afflicted people. ²⁰ Have respect to thy covenant, because the dark places of this land have been filled with habitations of iniquity; ²¹ let not him who hath been humbled and shamed be utterly scorned: let the afflicted and needy praise thy name. ²² Arise, God, plead thine own cause: remember the reproaches cast on thee, all day long, by a fool. ²³ Forget not the voice of thy suppliants: let the pride of them, who hate thee, ascend continually before thee.