# Psalm 74 A Maskil of Asaph. 
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1. O God, why do you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture? 
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2. Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage! Remember Mount Zion, where you have dwelt. 
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3. Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary! 
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4. Your foes have roared in the midst of your meeting place; they set up their own signs for signs. 
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5. They were like those who swing axes in a forest of trees. 
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6. And all its carved wood they broke down with hatchets and hammers. 
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7. They set your sanctuary on fire; they profaned the dwelling place of your name, bringing it down to the ground. 
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8. They said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”; they burned all the meeting places of God in the land. 
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9. We do not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet, and there is none among us who knows how long. 
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10. How long, O God, is the foe to scoff? Is the enemy to revile your name forever? 
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11. Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand? Take it from the fold of your garment and destroy them! 
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12. Yet God my King is from of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. 
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13. You divided the sea by your might; you broke the heads of the sea monsters on the waters. 
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14. You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness. 
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15. You split open springs and brooks; you dried up ever-flowing streams. 
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16. Yours is the day, yours also the night; you have established the heavenly lights and the sun. 
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17. You have fixed all the boundaries of the earth; you have made summer and winter. 
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18. Remember this, O LORD, how the enemy scoffs, and a foolish people reviles your name. 
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19. Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild beasts; do not forget the life of your poor forever. 
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20. Have regard for the covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence. 
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21. Let not the downtrodden turn back in shame; let the poor and needy praise your name. 
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22. Arise, O God, defend your cause; remember how the foolish scoff at you all the day! 
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23. Do not forget the clamor of your foes, the uproar of those who rise against you, which goes up continually! 

(ESV)