The Psalms
74. fejezet
1. vers
A contemplation by Asaph. God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
2. vers
Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance: Mount Zion, in which you have lived.
3. vers
Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
4. vers
Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.
5. vers
They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.
6. vers
Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.
7. vers
They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
8. vers
They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
9. vers
We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
10. vers
How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
11. vers
Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it from your chest and consume them!
12. vers
Yet God is my King of old, working salvation throughout the earth.
13. vers
You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
14. vers
You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.
15. vers
You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.
16. vers
The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.
17. vers
You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.
18. vers
Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
19. vers
Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.
20. vers
Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
21. vers
Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.
22. vers
Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
23. vers
Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.
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