Psalms Chapter 74 Darby English Bible

Psalms 74:1

{An instruction: of Asaph.} Why, O God, hast thou cast off for ever? [why] doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

Psalms 74:2

Remember thine assembly, which thou hast purchased of old, which thou hast redeemed [to be] the portion of thine inheritance, this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

Psalms 74:3

Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.

Psalms 74:4

Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs [for] signs.

Psalms 74:5

[A man] was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees;

Psalms 74:6

And now they break down its carved work altogether, with hatchets and hammers.

Psalms 74:7

They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitation of thy name to the ground.

Psalms 74:8

They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all ùGod's places of assembly in the land.

Psalms 74:9

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

Psalms 74:10

How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy contemn thy name for ever?

Psalms 74:11

Why withdrawest thou thy hand, and thy right hand? [pluck it] out of thy bosom: consume [them].

Psalms 74:12

But God is my king of old, accomplishing deliverances in the midst of the earth.

Psalms 74:13

*Thou* didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst break the heads of the monsters on the waters:

Psalms 74:14

*Thou* didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert.

Psalms 74:15

*Thou* didst cleave fountain and torrent, *thou* driedst up ever-flowing rivers.

Psalms 74:16

The day is thine, the night also is thine; *thou* hast prepared the moon and the sun:

Psalms 74:17

*Thou* hast set all the borders of the earth; summer and winter -- *thou* didst form them.

Psalms 74:18

Remember this, that an enemy hath reproached Jehovah, and a foolish people have contemned thy name.

Psalms 74:19

Give not up the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the troop of thine afflicted for ever.

Psalms 74:20

Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence.

Psalms 74:21

Oh let not the oppressed one return ashamed; let the afflicted and needy praise thy name.

Psalms 74:22

Rise up, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day;

Psalms 74:23

Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: the tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually.