1 Psalm 74 Yet God Is My King A 74:0Possibly Contemplative, Didactic, Skillful Psalm Maskil of Asaph.Why, O God? Have You rejectedusforever?Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your 74:1Or pasturing pasture?
2 Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old,Which You have redeemed to be the tribe of Your inheritance;Andthis Mount Zion, where You have dwelt.
3 Lift up Your steps toward the perpetual ruins;The enemy has damaged everything within the sanctuary.
4 Your adversaries have roared in the midst of Your meeting place;They have set up their own signs for signs.
5 Each seems like one who lifts up 74:5Lit Axes An axe against the undergrowth of trees.
6 And now its carved work altogetherThey smash with hatchet and 74:6Or axes hammers.
7 They have set Your sanctuary on fire;By bringing itto the ground, they have defiled the dwelling place of Your name.
8 They said in their heart, “Let us 74:8Lit altogether completely 74:8Or oppress subdue them.”They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
9 We do not see our signs;There is no longer any prophet,Nor is there any among us who knows how long.
10 How long, O God, will the adversary reproach?Will the enemy spurn Your name forever?
11 Why do You turn back Your hand, even Your right hand?From within Your bosom, destroythem!
12 ¶Yet God is my King from of old,Who works deeds of 74:12Lit salvations salvation in the midst of the earth.
13 You divided the sea by Your strength;You broke the heads of the sea monsters 74:13 Lit on in the waters.
14 You crushed the heads of 74:14Or the sea monster Leviathan;You gave him as food for the 74:14Lit people creatures of the desert.
15 74:15Or You Yourself You split open spring and river; 74:15Or You Yourself You dried up ever-flowing rivers.
16 Yours is the day, Yours also is the night; 74:16Or You Yourself You have established the 74:16Or luminary light and the sun.
17 74:17Or You Yourself You have caused all the boundaries of the earth to stand firm; 74:17Or You Yourself You have formed summer and winter.
18 ¶Remember this, O Yahweh, that the enemy has reproached,And a wickedly foolish people has spurned Your name.
19 Do not deliver the soul of Your turtledove to the wild beast;Do not forget the life of Your afflicted forever.
20 Look to the covenant;For the dark places of the land are full of the haunts of violence.
21 Let not the oppressed return dishonored;Let the afflicted and needy praise Your name.
22 ¶Arise, O God,andplead Your own cause;Remember 74:22Lit Your reproach from the wicked fool how the wicked fool reproaches You all day long.
23 Do not forget the voice of Your adversaries,The rumbling of those who rise against You which ascends continually.