Psalms 74
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
Berean Standard Bible
1Maschil of Asaph. Why, O God, hast Thou cast us off for ever? Why doth Thine anger smoke against the flock of Thy pasture?
1Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
2Remember 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.
2Remember Your congregation, which You purchased long ago and redeemed as the tribe of Your inheritance— Mount Zion where You dwell.
3Lift up Thy steps because of the perpetual ruins, even all the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.
3Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed.
4Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of Thy meeting-place; they have set up their own signs for signs.
4Your foes have roared within Your meeting place; they have unfurled their banners as signs,
5It seemed as when men wield upwards axes in a thicket of trees.
5like men wielding axes in a thicket of trees
6And now all the carved work thereof together they strike down with hatchet and hammers.
6and smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks.
7They have set Thy sanctuary on fire; they have profaned the dwelling-place of Thy name even to the ground.
7They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; they have defiled the dwelling place of Your Name.
8They said in their heart: 'Let us make havoc of them altogether'; they have burned up all the meeting-places of God in the land.
8They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely.” They burned down every place where God met us in the land.
9We see not our signs; there is no more any prophet; neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
9There are no signs for us to see. There is no longer any prophet. And none of us knows how long this will last.
10How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme Thy name for ever?
10How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?
11Why withdrawest Thou Thy hand, even Thy right hand? Draw it out of Thy bosom and consume them.
11Why do You withdraw Your strong right hand? Stretch it out to destroy them!
12Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
12Yet God is my King from ancient times, working salvation on the earth.
13Thou didst break the sea in pieces by Thy strength; Thou didst shatter the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.
13You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;
14Thou didst crush the heads of leviathan, Thou gavest him to be food to the folk inhabiting the wilderness.
14You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.
15Thou didst cleave fountain and brook; Thou driedst up ever-flowing rivers.
15You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.
16Thine is the day, Thine also the night; Thou hast established luminary and sun.
16The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.
17Thou hast set all the borders of the earth; Thou hast made summer and winter.
17You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made the summer and winter.
18Remember this, how the enemy hath reproached the LORD, and how a base people have blasphemed Thy name.
18Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.
19O deliver not the soul of Thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the life of Thy poor for ever.
19Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever.
20Look upon the covenant; for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
20Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
21O let not the oppressed turn back in confusion; let the poor and needy praise Thy name.
21Do not let the oppressed retreat in shame; may the poor and needy praise Your name.
22Arise, O God, plead Thine own cause; remember Thy reproach all the day at the hand of the base man.
22Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long.
23Forget not the voice of Thine adversaries, the tumult of those that rise up against Thee which ascendeth continually.
23Do not disregard the clamor of Your adversaries, the uproar of Your enemies that ascends continually.
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