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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 American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch23074" class="chapter"> <h1 id="cn23074" class="cn"><a class="xlef" hlef="#rbk23"><span class="ac">Psalm</span> 74</a><a id="rfn23074000-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23074000-1">*</a></h1> <h1 class="cs">Prayer at the Destruction of the Temple</h1> <p class="pf-center"><span id="v23074001" class="ver">1</span>A <i>maskil</i> of Asaph.</p> <p class="chsect">I</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf">Why, God, have you cast us off forever?<a id="rfn23074001-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23074001-1">*</a><a id="ren23074001-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23074001-a">a</a></p> <p class="sl1">Why does your anger burn against the sheep of your pasture?<a id="ren23074001-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23074001-b">b</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23074002" class="ver">2</span>Remember your people, whom you acquired of old,</p> <p class="sl1">the tribe you redeemed as your own heritage,</p> <p class="sl1">Mount Zion where you dwell.<a id="ren23074002-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23074002-c">c</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23074003" class="ver">3</span>Direct your steps toward the utter destruction,</p> <p class="sl1">everything the enemy laid waste in the sanctuary.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23074004" class="ver">4</span>Your foes roared triumphantly in the place of your assembly;</p> <p class="sl1">they set up their own tokens of victory.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23074005" class="ver">5</span>They hacked away like a forester gathering boughs,</p> <p class="sl1">swinging his ax in a thicket of trees.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23074006" class="ver">6</span>They smashed all its engraved work,</p> <p class="sl1">struck it with ax and pick.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23074007" class="ver">7</span>They set your sanctuary on fire,</p> <p class="sl1">profaned your name’s abode by razing it to the ground.<a id="ren23074007-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23074007-d">d</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23074008" class="ver">8</span>They said in their hearts, “We will destroy them all!</p> <p class="sl1">Burn all the assembly-places of God in the land!”</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23074009" class="ver">9</span><a id="rfn23074009-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23074009-1">*</a>Even so we have seen no signs for us,</p> <p class="sl1">there is no prophet any more,<a id="ren23074009-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23074009-e">e</a></p> <p class="sl1">no one among us who knows for how long.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23074010" class="ver">10</span>How long, O God, will the enemy jeer?<a id="ren23074010-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23074010-f">f</a></p> <p class="sl1">Will the enemy revile your name forever?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23074011" class="ver">11</span>Why draw back your hand,</p> <p class="sl1">why hold back your right hand within your bosom?<a id="rfn23074011-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23074011-1">*</a></p> </div> <p class="chsect">II</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v23074012" class="ver">12</span><a id="rfn23074012-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23074012-1">*</a>Yet you, God, are my king from of old,</p> <p class="sl1">winning victories throughout the earth.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23074013" class="ver">13</span>You stirred up the sea by your might;<a id="ren23074013-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23074013-g">g</a></p> <p class="sl1">you smashed the heads of the dragons on the waters.<a id="ren23074013-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23074013-h">h</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23074014" class="ver">14</span>You crushed the heads of Leviathan,<a id="ren23074014-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23074014-i">i</a></p> <p class="sl1">gave him as food to the sharks.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23074015" class="ver">15</span>You opened up springs and torrents,</p> <p class="sl1">brought dry land out of the primeval waters.<a id="rfn23074015-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23074015-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23074016" class="ver">16</span>Yours the day and yours the night too;</p> <p class="sl1">you set the moon and sun in place.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23074017" class="ver">17</span>You fixed all the limits of the earth;</p> <p class="sl1">summer and winter you made.<a id="ren23074017-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23074017-j">j</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23074018" class="ver">18</span>Remember how the enemy has jeered, <span class="tetr">Lord</span>,</p> <p class="sl1">how a foolish people has reviled your name.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23074019" class="ver">19</span>Do not surrender to wild animals those who praise you;</p> <p class="sl1">do not forget forever the life of your afflicted.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23074020" class="ver">20</span>Look to your covenant,</p> <p class="sl1">for the recesses of the land</p> <p class="sl1">are full of the haunts of violence.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23074021" class="ver">21</span>Let not the oppressed turn back in shame;</p> <p class="sl1">may the poor and needy praise your name.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23074022" class="ver">22</span>Arise, God, defend your cause;</p> <p class="sl1">remember the constant jeering of the fools.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23074023" class="ver">23</span>Do not forget the clamor of your foes,</p> <p class="sl1">the unceasing uproar of your enemies.</p> 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