Psalms 74

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

Maschil of Asaph. Why, O God, hast Thou cast us off for ever? Why doth Thine anger smoke against the flock of Thy pasture?

2 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.

Remember Thy congregation, which Thou hast gotten of old, which Thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of Thine inheritance; and mount Zion, wherein Thou hast dwelt.

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

Lift up Thy steps because of the perpetual ruins, even all the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.

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

Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of Thy meeting-place; they have set up their own signs for signs.

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

It seemed as when men wield upwards axes in a thicket of trees.

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

And now all the carved work thereof together they strike down with hatchet and hammers.

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

They have set Thy sanctuary on fire; they have profaned the dwelling-place of Thy name even to the ground.

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

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.

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

We see not our signs; there is no more any prophet; neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

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

How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme Thy name for ever?

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

Why withdrawest Thou Thy hand, even Thy right hand? Draw it out of Thy bosom and consume them.

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

Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

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

Thou didst break the sea in pieces by Thy strength; Thou didst shatter the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.

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

Thou didst crush the heads of leviathan, Thou gavest him to be food to the folk inhabiting the wilderness.

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

Thou didst cleave fountain and brook; Thou driedst up ever-flowing rivers.

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

Thine is the day, Thine also the night; Thou hast established luminary and sun.

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

Thou hast set all the borders of the earth; Thou hast made summer and winter.

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

Remember this, how the enemy hath reproached the LORD, and how a base people have blasphemed Thy name.

19 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.

O deliver not the soul of Thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the life of Thy poor for ever.

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

Look upon the covenant; for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.

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

O let not the oppressed turn back in confusion; let the poor and needy praise Thy name.

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

Arise, O God, plead Thine own cause; remember Thy reproach all the day at the hand of the base man.

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

Forget not the voice of Thine adversaries, the tumult of those that rise up against Thee which ascendeth continually.