Psalms 74

1 An Instructive Psalm. Asaph’s. Wherefore, O God, hast thou cast off utterly? Shall thine anger smoke against the flock of thine own pasturing?

A poem of Asaph why? O God have you rejected [us] to perpetuity does it smoke? anger your on [the] sheep of pasture your.

2 Remember thine own assembly thou didst acquire aforetime, Thou didst redeem the tribe of thine own inheritance, Mount Zion, wherein thou didst take up thy habitation.

Remember congregation your - [which] you acquired antiquity [which] you redeemed [the] tribe of inheritance your [the] mountain of Zion which - you have dwelt on it.

3 Lift up thy steps unto the places utterly unsafe, All the mischief!—the foe in the sanctuary!

Lift up! footsteps your to [the] ruins of perpetuity everything he has done harm to [the] enemy in the sanctuary.

4 Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine appointed meeting, They have set their ensigns as tokens!

They roared opposers your in [the] midst of appointed place your they set up signs their signs.

5 One used to be known according as he carried up high—into the thicket of trees—the axes;

It was known like [one who] brings upwards in a thicket of tree[s] axes.

6 But, now, the doors thereof all together, with axes and hammers, they batter down.

(And now *QK) engravings its altogether with axe[s] and crowbars they struck!

7 They have cast, into the fire, thy sanctuary, To the ground, have they profaned the habitation of thy Name.

They sent in fire sanctuary your to the ground they profaned [the] dwelling place of name your.

8 They have said in their heart, Let us suppress them altogether, They have burned up all the meeting-places of GOD in the land.

They said in heart their let us oppress them altogether they burned all [the] appointed places of God in the land.

9 Our own signs, have we not seen, —There is no longer a prophet, —Neither is there with us, one who knoweth—How long!

Signs our not we have seen there not still [is] a prophet and not [is] with us [one who] knows until when?

10 How long, O God, shall the adversary, reproach? Shall the enemy revile thy Name perpetually?

Until when? O God will he taunt [the] opponent will he spurn? [the] enemy name your to perpetuity.

11 Wherefore shouldst thou withdraw thy hand—thy right hand? [Bring it] out of the midst of thy bosom! (Selah)

Why? do you draw back hand your and right [hand] your from [the] midst of (bosom your *QK) destroy.

12 But, God, hath been my king from aforetime, Working Deliverances in the midst of the earth.

And God [has been] king my from antiquity [who] does salvation in [the] midst of the earth.

13 Thou, didst cleave asunder, in thy might, the sea, Thou didst break in pieces the heads of the Crocodiles, [till they floated] on the waters;

You you divided by strength your [the] sea you shattered [the] heads of sea monsters on the waters.

14 Thou, didst crush the heads of the Sea-Monster, Thou didst give him to be food, for the people of the deserts;

You you crushed [the] heads of Leviathan you gave it food to a people to desert-dwellers.

15 Thou, didst cleave open fountain and torrent, Thou, didst dry up rivers of steady flow:

You you broke open a spring and a torrent you you dried up rivers of ever-flowing.

16 Thine, is the day, Yea, thine, the night, Thou, didst establish moon and sun;

[belongs] to You day also [belongs] to you night you you prepared a luminary and [the] sun.

17 Thou, didst set up all the bounds of the earth, As for summer and winter, thou, didst form them!

You you established all [the] boundaries of [the] earth summer and winter you you formed them.

18 Remember this, An enemy, hath reproached Yahweh, Yea, an impious people, have reviled thy Name.

Remember this [the] enemy he taunted - O Yahweh and a people foolish they spurned name your.

19 Do not deliver up, to a wild beast, the life of thy turtle-dove, The living host of thine oppressed ones, do not forget perpetually.

May not you give to an animal [the] life of turtle-dove your [the] life of poor [people] your may not you forget to perpetuity.

20 Have respect to thy covenant, For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.

Pay attention to the covenant for they are full [the] dark places of [the] land settlements of violence.

21 May the crushed one not again be confounded, As for the oppressed and the needy, let them praise thy Name.

May not he return [the] oppressed humiliated [the] poor and [the] needy may they praise name your.

22 Arise! O God, plead thine own cause, Remember the reproach of thee, from the impious one, all the day:

Arise! O God conduct! case your remember reproach your from a fool all the day.

23 Do not forget the voice of thine adversaries, The noise of thine assailants, ascending continually.

May not you forget [the] sound of opposers your [the] uproar of [those who] rise against you [which] goes up continually.