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width="99%" valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/psalms/74.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>A Plea for Relief from Oppressors</span></h3><h4 class="psalm-title"><span class="text Ps-74-1">A <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>Contemplation of Asaph.</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Ps-74-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>O God, why have You cast <i>us</i> off forever?</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-74-1"><i>Why</i> does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Remember Your congregation, <i>which</i> You have purchased of old,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-74-2">The tribe of Your inheritance, <i>which</i> You have redeemed—</span><br /><span class="text Ps-74-2">This Mount Zion where You have dwelt.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Lift up Your feet to the perpetual desolations.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-74-3">The enemy has damaged everything in the sanctuary.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Your enemies roar in the midst of Your meeting place;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-74-4">They set up their banners <i>for</i> signs.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They seem like men who lift up</span><br /><span class="text Ps-74-5">Axes among the thick trees.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And now they break down its carved work, all at once,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-74-6">With axes and hammers.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>They have set fire to Your sanctuary;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-74-7">They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name to the ground.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They said in their hearts,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-74-8">“Let us <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>destroy them altogether.”</span><br /><span class="text Ps-74-8">They have burned up all the meeting places of God in the land.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>We do not see our signs;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-74-9"><i>There is</i> no longer any prophet;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-74-9">Nor <i>is there</i> any among us who knows how long.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>O God, how long will the adversary <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>reproach?</span><br /><span class="text Ps-74-10">Will the enemy blaspheme Your name forever?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand?</span><br /><span class="text Ps-74-11"><i>Take it</i> out of Your bosom and destroy <i>them.</i></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For God <i>is</i> my King from of old,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-74-12">Working salvation in the midst of the earth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>You divided the sea by Your strength;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-74-13">You broke the heads of the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>sea serpents in the waters.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>You broke the heads of <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>Leviathan in pieces,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-74-14"><i>And</i> gave him <i>as</i> food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>You broke open the fountain and the flood;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-74-15">You dried up mighty rivers.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The day <i>is</i> Yours, the night also <i>is</i> Yours;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-74-16">You have prepared the light and the sun.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>You have set all the borders of the earth;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-74-17">You have made summer and winter.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Remember this, <i>that</i> the enemy has reproached, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-74-18">And <i>that</i> a foolish people has blasphemed Your name.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Oh, do not deliver the life of Your turtledove to the wild beast!</span><br /><span class="text Ps-74-19">Do not forget the life of Your poor forever.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Have respect to the covenant;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-74-20">For the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>dark places of the earth are full of the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>haunts of <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[h]</a></span>cruelty.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Oh, do not let the oppressed return ashamed!</span><br /><span class="text Ps-74-21">Let the poor and needy praise Your name.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Arise, O God, plead Your own cause;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-74-22">Remember how the foolish man <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[i]</a></span>reproaches You daily.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/74-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Do not forget the voice of Your enemies;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-74-23">The tumult of those who rise up against You increases continually.</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-15050a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 74:1">Psalm 74:1</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb. <i>Maschil</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-15057b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 74:8">Psalm 74:8</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>oppress</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-15059c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 74:10">Psalm 74:10</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>revile</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-15062d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 74:13">Psalm 74:13</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>sea monsters</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-15063e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 74:14">Psalm 74:14</span> <span class='footnote-text'>A large sea creature of unknown identity</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-15069f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 74:20">Psalm 74:20</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>hiding places</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-15069g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 74:20">Psalm 74:20</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>homes</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-15069h"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 74:20">Psalm 74:20</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>violence</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-15071i"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 74:22">Psalm 74:22</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>reviles</i> or <i>taunts</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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