English Bible
Psalms 74
Big screen- 1O God, why have you cast us off for ever? why does yours anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
- 2Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old; the rod of yours inheritance, which you have redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein you have dwelt.
- 3Lift up your feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary.
- 4Yours enemies roar in the midst of your congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
- 5A man was 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 by casting down 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 God in the land.
- 9We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knows how long.
- 10O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme your name for ever?
- 11Why withdraw you your hand, even your right hand? pluck it out of your bosom.
- 12For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
- 13You did divide the sea by your strength: you brake the heads of the dragons in the waters.
- 14You brake the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gave him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
- 15You did cleave the fountain and the flood: you dried up mighty rivers.
- 16The day is yours, the night also is yours: you have prepared the light and the sun.
- 17You have set all the borders of the earth: you have made summer and winter.
- 18Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed your name.
- 19O deliver not the soul of your turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: 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 God, plead yours own cause: remember how the foolish man reproaches you daily.
- 23Forget not the voice of yours enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against you increases continually.