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Psalms 74

¹Why have you abandoned us like this, O God? Will you be angry with your own people forever?

²Remember your people, whom you chose for yourself long ago, whom you brought out of slavery to be your own tribe. Remember Mount Zion, where once you lived.

³Walk over these total ruins; our enemies have destroyed everything in the Temple.

⁴Your enemies have shouted in triumph in your Temple; they have placed their flags there as signs of victory.

⁵They looked like woodsmen cutting down trees with their axes.

⁶They smashed all the wooden panels with their axes and sledge hammers.

⁷They wrecked your Temple and set it on fire; they desecrated the place where you are worshiped.

⁸They wanted to crush us completely; they burned down every holy place in the land.

⁹All our sacred symbols are gone; there are no prophets left, and no one knows how long this will last.

¹⁰How long, O God, will our enemies laugh at you? Will they insult your name forever?

¹¹Why have you refused to help us? Why do you keep your hands behind you?

¹²But you have been our king from the beginning, O God; you have saved us many times.

¹³With your mighty strength you divided the sea and smashed the heads of the sea monsters;

¹⁴you crushed the heads of the monster Leviathan and fed his body to desert animals.

¹⁵You made springs and fountains flow; you dried up large rivers.

¹⁶You created the day and the night; you set the sun and the moon in their places;

¹⁷you set the limits of the earth; you made summer and winter.

¹⁸But remember, O LORD, that your enemies laugh at you, that they are godless and despise you.

¹⁹Don't abandon your helpless people to their cruel enemies; don't forget your persecuted people!

²⁰Remember the covenant you made with us. There is violence in every dark corner of the land.

²¹Don't let the oppressed be put to shame; let those poor and needy people praise you.

²²Rouse yourself, God, and defend your cause! Remember that godless people laugh at you all day long.

²³Don't forget the angry shouts of your enemies, the continuous noise made by your foes.