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75">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="d">(A special psalm by Asaph.)</h3><h3 class="s1">A Prayer for the Nation in Times of Trouble</h3><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_1"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.74.1" class="v19_74_1">1</span>Our God, why have you</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_1">completely rejected us?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_1">Why are you so angry</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_1">with the ones you care for?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_2"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.74.2" class="v19_74_2">2</span>Remember the people</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_2">you rescued long ago,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_2">the tribe you chose</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_2">for your very own.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_2">Think of Mount Zion,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_2">your home;</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_3"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.74.3" class="v19_74_3">3</span>walk over to the temple</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_3">left in ruins forever</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_3">by those who hate us.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_4"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.74.4" class="v19_74_4">4</span>Your enemies roared like lions</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_4">in your holy temple,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_4">and they have placed</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_4">their banners there.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_5"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.74.5" class="v19_74_5">5</span>It looks like a forest</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_5">chopped to pieces.<a href="#fn" id="link_Ps.74.5!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_6"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.74.6" class="v19_74_6">6</span>They used axes and hatchets</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_6">to smash the carvings.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_7"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.74.7" class="v19_74_7">7</span>They burned down your temple</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_7">and badly disgraced it.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_8"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.74.8" class="v19_74_8">8</span>They said to themselves,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_8">“We'll crush them!”</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_8">Then they burned every one</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_8">of your meeting places</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_8">all over the country.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_9"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.74.9" class="v19_74_9">9</span>There are no more miracles</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_9">and no more prophets.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_9">Who knows how long</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_9">it will be like this?</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_10"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.74.10" class="v19_74_10">10</span>Our God, how much longer</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_10">will our enemies sneer?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_10">Won't they ever stop</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_10">insulting you?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_11"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.74.11" class="v19_74_11">11</span>Why don't you punish them?</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_11">Why are you holding back?</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_12"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.74.12" class="v19_74_12">12</span>Our God and King,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_12">you have ruled</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_12">since ancient times;</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_12">you have won victories</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_12">everywhere on this earth.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_13"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.74.13" class="v19_74_13">13</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Ps.74.13!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> By your power you made a path</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_13">through the sea,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_13">and you smashed the heads</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_13">of sea monsters.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_14"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.74.14" class="v19_74_14">14</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Ps.74.14!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> You crushed the heads</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_14">of the monster Leviathan,<a href="#fn" id="link_Ps.74.14!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_14">then fed him to wild creatures</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_14">in the desert.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_15"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.74.15" class="v19_74_15">15</span>You opened the ground</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_15">for streams and springs</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_15">and dried up mighty rivers.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_16"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.74.16" class="v19_74_16">16</span>You rule the day and the night,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_16">and you put the moon</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_16">and the sun in place.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_17"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.74.17" class="v19_74_17">17</span>You made summer and winter</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_17">and gave them to the earth.<a href="#fn" id="link_Ps.74.17!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_18"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.74.18" class="v19_74_18">18</span>Remember your enemies, <span class="nd">Lord</span>!</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_18">They foolishly sneer</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_18">and won't respect you.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_19"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.74.19" class="v19_74_19">19</span>You treat us like pet doves,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_19">but they mistreat us.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_19">Don't keep forgetting us</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_19">and letting us be fed</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_19">to those wild animals.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_20"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.74.20" class="v19_74_20">20</span>Remember the agreement</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_20">you made with us.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_20">Violent enemies are hiding</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_20">in every dark corner</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_20">of the earth.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_21"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.74.21" class="v19_74_21">21</span>Don't disappoint those in need</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_21">or make them turn from you,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_21">but help the poor and homeless</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_21">to shout your praises.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_22"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.74.22" class="v19_74_22">22</span>Do something, God!</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_22">Defend yourself.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_22">Remember how those fools</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_22">sneer at you all day long.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_74_23"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.74.23" class="v19_74_23">23</span>Don't forget the loud shouts</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_74_23">of your enemies.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">74.5 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">pieces: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 5.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">74.14 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Leviathan: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">God's victory over this monster sometimes stands for his power over all creation and sometimes for his defeat of Egypt.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">74.17 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">gave … earth: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “made boundaries for the earth.”</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div 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