Psalm 74
An Appeal to God
against the Enemy |
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O God, why hast thou cast us off
for ever?
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Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep
of thy
pasture? |
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2 |
Remember thy congregation,
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which thou hast purchased of old; |
the rod of thine inheritance, |
which thou hast redeemed; |
this mount Zion, |
wherein thou hast
dwelt. |
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Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual
desolations;
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even all that the enemy hath done
wickedly in the sanctuary.
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4 |
Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy
congregations;
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they set up their ensigns for signs. |
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A man was famous according as he
had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
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But now they break down the carved work
thereof at once with axes and hammers.
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They have cast fire into thy
sanctuary,
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they have defiled by casting down the
dwelling place of thy name to the
ground. |
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They said in their hearts, Let us destroy
them together:
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they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the
land.
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9 |
We see not our signs:
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there is no more any prophet: |
neither is there among us any that knoweth
how long. |
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10 |
O God, how long shall the adversary
reproach?
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Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for
ever? |
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11 |
Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy
right hand?
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Pluck it out of thy bosom.
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For God is my King of old,
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working salvation in the midst of the
earth. |
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13 |
Thou didst divide the sea by thy
strength: Ex. 14.21
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thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the
waters. |
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Thou brakest the heads of leviathan Job.
41.1 · Ps.
104.26 · Is.
27.1 in pieces,
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and gavest him to be meat to the
people inhabiting the
wilderness. |
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Thou didst cleave the fountain and the
flood:
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thou driedst up mighty
rivers. |
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The day is thine, the night also is thine:
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thou hast prepared the light and the
sun. |
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Thou hast set all the borders of the
earth:
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thou hast made summer and winter.
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Remember this, that the enemy hath
reproached, O LORD,
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and that the foolish people have blasphemed
thy name. |
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O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove
unto the multitude of the wicked:
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forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
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20 |
Have respect unto the covenant:
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for the dark places of the earth are full of the
habitations of
cruelty. |
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21 |
O let not the oppressed return
ashamed:
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let the poor and needy praise thy name.
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22 |
Arise, O God, plead thine own cause:
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remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee
daily. |
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23 |
Forget not the voice of thine
enemies:
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the tumult of those that rise up against thee
increaseth
continually. |
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