<TITLE>Psalms 074</TITLE><BR>Psalms 74 <BR>1 O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?<BR>2 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.<BR>3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.<BR>4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.<BR>5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.<BR>6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.<BR>7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.<BR>8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.<BR>9 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.<BR>10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?<BR>11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.<BR>12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.<BR>13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.<BR>14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.<BR>15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.<BR>16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.<BR>17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.<BR>18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.<BR>19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.<BR>20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.<BR>21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.<BR>22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.<BR>23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.<BR><BR><BR>