Psalms 74
1 The understanding of Asaph. O God, why have you rejected us to the end. Why has your fury become enraged over the sheep of your pasture?
| משכיל לאסף למה אלהים זנחת לנצח יעשן אפך בצאן מרעיתך |
2 Be mindful of your congregation, which you have possessed from the beginning. You redeemed the scepter of your inheritance, mount Zion, in which you have dwelt.
| זכר עדתך קנית קדם-- גאלת שבט נחלתך הר-ציון זה שכנת בו |
3 Lift up your hands against their arrogance in the end. How great the malice of the enemy has been in the sanctuary!
| הרימה פעמיך למשאות נצח כל-הרע אויב בקדש |
4 And those who hate you have been glorified, in the midst of your solemnity. They have set up their own signs as a proof,
| שאגו צרריך בקרב מועדך שמו אותתם אתות |
5 as if it had been issued from on high; yet they did not understand. As in a forest of chopped wood,
| יודע כמביא למעלה בסבך-עץ קרדמות |
6 they have cut down the entrances themselves. With axe and hatchet, they have brought it down.
| ועת (ועתה) פתוחיה יחד-- בכשיל וכילפות יהלמון |
7 They have set fire to your Sanctuary. They have polluted the tabernacle of your name on earth.
| שלחו באש מקדשך לארץ חללו משכן-שמך |
8 They have said in their heart, the whole group of them together: “Let us cause all the feast days of God to cease from the land.
| אמרו בלבם נינם יחד שרפו כל-מועדי-אל בארץ |
9 We have not seen our proof; there is now no prophet. And he will no longer know us.”
| אותתינו לא ראינו אין-עוד נביא ולא-אתנו ידע עד-מה |
10 How long, O God, will the enemy place blame? Is the adversary to provoke your name until the end?
| עד-מתי אלהים יחרף צר ינאץ אויב שמך לנצח |
11 Why do you turn your hand away, even your right hand, from the midst of your sinews, until the end?
| למה תשיב ידך וימינך מקרב חוקך (חיקך) כלה |
12 But God is our king before all ages. He has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.
| ואלהים מלכי מקדם פעל ישועות בקרב הארץ |
13 In your virtue, you confirmed the sea. You crushed the heads of the serpents in the waters.
| אתה פוררת בעזך ים שברת ראשי תנינים על-המים |
14 You have broken the heads of the serpent. You have given him as food for the people of the Ethiopians.
| אתה רצצת ראשי לויתן תתננו מאכל לעם לציים |
15 You have disrupted the fountains and the torrents. You have dried up the rivers of Ethan.
| אתה בקעת מעין ונחל אתה הובשת נהרות איתן |
16 Yours is the day, and yours is the night. You have made the morning light and the sun.
| לך יום אף-לך לילה אתה הכינות מאור ושמש |
17 You have made all the limits of the earth. The summer and the spring were formed by you.
| אתה הצבת כל-גבולות ארץ קיץ וחרף אתה יצרתם |
18 Be mindful of this: the enemy placed blame against the Lord, and a foolish people has incited against your name.
| זכר-זאת--אויב חרף יהוה ועם נבל נאצו שמך |
19 Do not hand over to beasts the souls that confess to you; and do not forget the souls of your poor until the end.
| אל-תתן לחית נפש תורך חית ענייך אל-תשכח לנצח |
20 Consider your covenant. For those who have been darkened upon the earth have been filled by the iniquity of the houses.
| הבט לברית כי מלאו מחשכי-ארץ נאות חמס |
21 Do not allow the humble to be turned away in confusion. The poor and the needy will praise your name.
| אל-ישב דך נכלם עני ואביון יהללו שמך |
22 Rise up, O God, judge your own case. Call to mind the accusations against you, which are made by the foolish all day long.
| קומה אלהים ריבה ריבך זכר חרפתך מני-נבל כל-היום |
23 Do not forget the voices of your adversaries. The arrogance of those who hate you rises up continually.
| אל-תשכח קול צרריך שאון קמיך עלה תמיד |
