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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Psalm 74 JPS Tanakh 1917</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/jps/psalms/74.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/psalms/74.htm" 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redeemed to be the tribe of Thine inheritance;</div><div class="po2">And mount Zion, wherein Thou hast dwelt.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/74-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Lift up Thy steps because of the perpetual ruins,</div><div class="po2">Even all the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/74-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of Thy meeting-place;</div><div class="po2">They have set up their own signs for signs.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/74-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>It seemed as when men wield upwards</div><div class="po2">Axes in a thicket of trees.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/74-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And now all the carved work thereof together</div><div class="po2">They strike down with hatchet and hammers.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/74-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>They have set Thy sanctuary on fire;</div><div class="po2">They have profaned the dwelling-place of Thy name even to the ground.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/74-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They said in their heart: ‘Let us make havoc of them altogether’;</div><div class="po2">They have burned up all the meeting-places of God in the land.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/74-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>We see not our signs;</div><div class="po2">There is no more any prophet;</div><div class="po2">Neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/74-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach?</div><div class="po2">Shall the enemy blaspheme Thy name for ever?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/74-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Why withdrawest Thou Thy hand, even Thy right hand?</div><div class="po2">Draw it out of Thy bosom and consume them.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/74-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Yet God is my King of old,</div><div class="po2">Working salvation in the midst of the earth.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/74-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Thou didst break the sea in pieces by Thy strength;</div><div class="po2">Thou didst shatter the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/74-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Thou didst crush the heads of leviathan,</div><div class="po2">Thou gavest him to be food to the folk inhabiting the wilderness.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/74-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Thou didst cleave fountain and brook;</div><div class="po2">Thou driedst up ever-flowing rivers.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/74-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Thine is the day, Thine also the night;</div><div class="po2">Thou hast established luminary and sun.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/74-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Thou hast set all the borders of the earth;</div><div class="po2">Thou hast made summer and winter.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/74-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Remember this, how the enemy hath reproached the LORD,</div><div class="po2">And how a base people have blasphemed Thy name.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/74-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>O deliver not the soul of Thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast;</div><div class="po2">Forget not the life of Thy poor for ever.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/74-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Look upon the covenant;</div><div class="po2">For the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/74-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>O let not the oppressed turn back in confusion;</div><div class="po2">Let the poor and needy praise Thy name.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/74-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Arise, O God, plead Thine own cause;</div><div class="po2">Remember Thy reproach all the day at the hand of the base man.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/74-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Forget not the voice of Thine adversaries,</div><div class="po2">The tumult of those that rise up against Thee which ascendeth continually.</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div 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