Psalms 74
World English BibleTranslation
World English Bible
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
1Unto the end, corrupt not, a psalm of a canticle for Asaph.
2Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance: Mount Zion, in which you have lived.
2We will praise thee, O God: we will praise, and we will call upon thy name. We will relate thy wondrous works:
3Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
3When I shall take a time, I will judge justices.
4Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.
4The earth is melted, and all that dwell therein: I have established the pillars thereof.
5They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.
5I said to the wicked: Do not act wickedly: and to the sinners: Lift not up the horn.
6Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.
6Lift not up your horn on high: speak not iniquity against God.
7They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
7For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert hills:
8They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
8For God is the judge. One he putteth down, and another he lifteth up:
9We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
9For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup of strong wine full of mixture. And he hath poured it out from this to that: but the dregs thereof are not emptied: all the sinners of the earth shall drink.
10How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
10But I will declare for ever: I will sing to the God of Jacob.
11Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it from your chest and consume them!
11And I will break all the horns of sinners: but the horns of the just shall be exalted.
12Yet God is my King of old, working salvation throughout the earth.
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13You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
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14You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.
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15You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.
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16The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.
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17You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.
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18Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, LORD. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
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19Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.
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20Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
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21Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.
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22Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
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23Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.
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