^74:1 O God, why have you cast off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?

    ^74:2 Remember your congregation, which you bought them of long-ago, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance and Mount Zion, at which you have dwelt.

    ^74:3 Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary. ^74:4Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. They have set up their ensigns for signs.

    ^74:5 They seemed as men who lifted up axes upon a thicket of trees. ^74:6 And now they break down all the carved work of it with hatchet and hammers.

    ^74:7 They have set your sanctuary on fire. They have profaned the dwelling-place of your name to the ground. ^74:8 They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether. They have burned up all the meeting-places of God in the land.

    ^74:9 We do not see our signs. There is no more any prophet, nor any among us who knows how long. ^74:10 How long, O God, will the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

    ^74:11 Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Remove it from the midst of your bosom.

    ^74:12 Yet God is my King of long-ago, working salvation in the midst of the earth. ^74:13 You divided the sea by your strength.

    You break the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters. ^74:14 You break the heads of the leviathan in pieces. You gave him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness. ^74:15 You split fountain and flood. You dried up mighty rivers.

    ^74:16 The day is yours; the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun. ^74:17 You have set all the borders of the earth. You have made summer and winter.

    ^74:18 Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O Jehovah and that a foolish people has blasphemed your name.

    ^74:19 O do not deliver the soul of your turtle-dove to the wild beast. Do not forget the life of your poor forever.

    ^74:20 Have respect to the covenant, because the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence.

    ^74:21 O do not let he who is oppressed return ashamed. Let a poor and needy man praise your name.

    ^74:22 Arise, O God, plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man reproaches you all the day.

    ^74:23 Do not forget not the voice of your adversaries. The uproar of those who rise up against you ascends continually.