| Chapter 74 |
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{An instruction: of Asaph.} Why, O God, hast thou cast off for ever? [why] doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
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Remember thine assembly, which thou hast purchased of old, which thou hast redeemed [to be] the portion of thine inheritance, this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
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Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.
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Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs [for] signs.
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[A man] was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees;
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And now they break down its carved work altogether, with hatchets and hammers.
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They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitation of thy name to the ground.
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They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all łGod's places of assembly in the land.
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We see not our signs; there is no more any prophet, neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
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How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy contemn thy name for ever?
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Why withdrawest thou thy hand, and thy right hand? [pluck it] out of thy bosom: consume [them].
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But God is my king of old, accomplishing deliverances in the midst of the earth.
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Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst break the heads of the monsters on the waters:
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Thou didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert.
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Thou didst cleave fountain and torrent, thou driedst up ever-flowing rivers.
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The day is thine, the night also is thine; thou hast prepared the moon and the sun:
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Thou hast set all the borders of the earth; summer and winter -- thou didst form them.
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Remember this, that an enemy hath reproached Jehovah, and a foolish people have contemned thy name.
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Give not up the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the troop of thine afflicted for ever.
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Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence.
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Oh let not the oppressed one return ashamed; let the afflicted and needy praise thy name.
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Rise up, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day;
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Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: the tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually.
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