Psalms 74:4-23 ▼

4 Your adversaries have roared within Your meeting place; they have set up their signs for signs.

5 He made himself known like one bringing on high axes against a thicket of tree;

6 and now all its engravings they strike down with ax and hatchet.

7 They have sent Your sanctuary into the fire, to the ground; they have desecrated the dwelling place of Your Name.

8 They said in their hearts, “Let us oppress them altogether!” They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

9 Signs for us we do not see; there is no longer a prophet, and there is no one among us knowing until when.

10 Until when, O God, will the adversary reproach? Will the enemy revile Your name forever?

11 Why do You turn back Your hand, and Your right hand? May You remove it from the midst of Your bosom!

12 For God is my King from of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

13 You divided the sea by Your strength; You broke the heads of the dragons upon the waters.

14 You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You gave him as food to the people of the dry places.

15 You burst open spring and stream; You dried up the enduring rivers.

16 To You is the day, also to You is the night; You established the light and the sun.

17 You set all the boundaries of the earth; summer and winter, You have formed them.

18 Remember this, an enemy has reproached YHWH, and a foolish people have spurned Your name!

19 Do not give to the wild beast the soul of Your dove; do not forget the life of Your afflicted ones forever!

20 Look to the covenant! For the dark places of the earth are filled as habitations of violence.

21 Do not let the oppressed turn back, having been disgraced; let the afflicted and needy ones praise Your name.

22 Arise, O God, defend Your cause! Remember the scorning of You from a fool all the day.

23 Do not forget the voice of Your enemies, the uproar of those rising against You, going up continually.