CINXE.COM

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Psalm 74 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><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" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/psalms/74-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NRSVCE</a> > Psalm 74</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/73.htm" title="Psalm 73">◄</a> Psalm 74 <a href="../psalms/75.htm" title="Psalm 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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Psalm 74</span></h3><h3><span class="text">Plea for Help in Time of National Humiliation</span></h3><h4 class="psalm-title"><span class="text">A Maskil of Asaph.</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>O God, why do you cast us off forever?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>Remember your congregation, which you acquired long ago,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">which you redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage.</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Remember Mount Zion, where you came to dwell.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Your foes have roared within your holy place;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they set up their emblems there.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>At the upper entrance they hacked</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the wooden trellis with axes.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-17124a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>And then, with hatchets and hammers,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they smashed all its carved work.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>They set your sanctuary on fire;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they desecrated the dwelling place of your name,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">bringing it to the ground.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>They said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>We do not see our emblems;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">there is no longer any prophet,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and there is no one among us who knows how long.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>How long, O God, is the foe to scoff?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Is the enemy to revile your name forever?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Why do you hold back your hand;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">why do you keep your hand in<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-17130b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> your bosom?</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Yet God my King is from of old,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">working salvation in the earth.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>You divided the sea by your might;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">you broke the heads of the dragons in the waters.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>You crushed the heads of Leviathan;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">you gave him as food<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-17133c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> for the creatures of the wilderness.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>You cut openings for springs and torrents;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">you dried up ever-flowing streams.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Yours is the day, yours also the night;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">you established the luminaries<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-17135d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> and the sun.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>You have fixed all the bounds of the earth;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">you made summer and winter.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Remember this, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, how the enemy scoffs,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and an impious people reviles your name.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild animals;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">do not forget the life of your poor forever.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>Have regard for your<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-17139e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> covenant,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for the dark places of the land are full of the haunts of violence.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>Do not let the downtrodden be put to shame;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">let the poor and needy praise your name.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>Rise up, O God, plead your cause;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">remember how the impious scoff at you all day long.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>Do not forget the clamor of your foes,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the uproar of your adversaries that goes up continually.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 74:5">Psalm 74:5</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn Compare Gk Syr: Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 74:11">Psalm 74:11</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Heb <i>do you consume your right hand from</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 74:14">Psalm 74:14</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>food for the people</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 74:16">Psalm 74:16</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>moon</i>; Heb <i>light</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 74:20">Psalm 74:20</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Syr: Heb <i>the</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../psalms/73.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 73"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 73" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../psalms/75.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 75"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 75" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>