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Have you rejected us forever?</p> <p class="poetry2">Your anger is burning against the sheep of your pasture.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Remember your community,</p> <p class="poetry2">whom you purchased long ago,</p> <p class="poetry2">the tribe whom you redeemed</p> <p class="poetry2">for your possession.</p> <p class="poetry2">Remember<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="74:2 The Heb. lacks Remember">b</a></span> Mount Zion,</p> <p class="poetry2">where you live.</p> <p class="poetry1 marginbot"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Hurry! Look at the permanent ruins—</p> <p class="poetry2">every calamity the enemy brought upon the Holy Place.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Those who are opposing you roar</p> <p class="poetry2">where we were meeting with you;</p> <p class="poetry2">they unfurl their war banners as signs.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>As one blazes a trail</p> <p class="poetry2">through a forest with an ax,</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>now they’re tearing down all its carved work</p> <p class="poetry2">with hatchets and hammers.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>They burned your sanctuary to the ground,</p> <p class="poetry2">desecrating your dwelling place.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They say to themselves,</p> <p class="poetry2">“We’ll crush them completely;”</p> <p class="poetry2">They burned down all the meeting places of God in the land.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>We see no signs for us;</p> <p class="poetry2">there is no longer a prophet,</p> <p class="poetry2">and no one among us knows the future.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="74:9 Lit. knows when">c</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>God, how long will the adversary scorn</p> <p class="poetry2">while the enemy despises your name endlessly?</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Why do you not withdraw your hand—</p> <p class="poetry2">your right hand—from your bosom</p> <p class="poetry2">and destroy them?<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="74:11 The Heb. lacks them">d</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But God is my king from ancient times,</p> <p class="poetry2">who brings acts of deliverance throughout the earth.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>You split the sea by your own power.</p> <p class="poetry2">You shattered the heads of sea monsters in the water.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>You crushed the heads of Leviathan.</p> <p class="poetry2">You set it as food for desert creatures.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="74:14 Or people">e</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>You opened both the spring and the river;</p> <p class="poetry2">you dried up flowing rivers.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Yours is the day, and yours is the night;</p> <p class="poetry2">you established the moon and the sun.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>You set all the boundaries of the earth;</p> <p class="poetry2">you made summer and winter.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Remember this: The enemy scorns the LORD</p> <p class="poetry2">and a foolish people despises your name.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Don’t hand over the life of your dove to beasts;</p> <p class="poetry2">do not continuously forget your afflicted ones.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Pay attention to your covenant,</p> <p class="poetry2">for the dark regions of the earth are full of violence.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Don’t let the oppressed return in humiliation.</p> <p class="poetry2">The poor and needy will praise your name.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Get up, God, and prosecute your case—</p> <p class="poetry2">remember that you’re being scorned</p> <p class="poetry2">by fools all day long.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Don’t ignore the shout of those opposing you,</p> <p class="poetry2">The uproar of those who rebel against you continuously.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A 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