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