Salmo 74

¹ Why, O God, hast thou cast off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? ² 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. ³ Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed. ⁴ Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs for signs. ⁵  A man was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees; ⁶ And now they break down its carved work altogether, with hatchets and hammers. ⁷ They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitation of thy name to the ground. ⁸ They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all *God's places of assembly in the land. ⁹ We see not our signs; there is no more any prophet, neither is there among us any that knoweth how long. ¹⁰ How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy contemn thy name for ever? ¹¹ Why withdrawest thou thy hand, and thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom: consume them .

¹² But God is my king of old, accomplishing deliverances in the midst of the earth. ¹³ *Thou* didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst break the heads of the monsters on the waters: ¹⁴ *Thou* didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert. ¹⁵ *Thou* didst cleave fountain and torrent, *thou* driedst up ever-flowing rivers. ¹⁶ The day is thine, the night also is thine; *thou* hast prepared the moon and the sun: ¹⁷ *Thou* hast set all the borders of the earth; summer and winter--*thou* didst form them.

¹⁸ Remember this, that an enemy hath reproached Jehovah, and a foolish people have contemned thy name. ¹⁹ Give not up the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the troop of thine afflicted for ever. ²⁰ Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence. ²¹ Oh let not the oppressed one return ashamed; let the afflicted and needy praise thy name. ²² Rise up, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day; ²³ Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: the tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually.