Psalms 74:1-11
Arise, O God, Defend Your Cause
A Maskil ▼▼Probably a musical or liturgical term of bAsaph.
1 O God, why do you ccast us off forever?Why does your anger dsmoke against ethe sheep of your pasture?
2 fRemember your congregation, which you have gpurchased of old,
which you have hredeemed to be ithe tribe of your heritage!
Remember Mount Zion, jwhere you have dwelt.
3Direct your steps to kthe perpetual ruins;
the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!
4 Your foes have lroared in the midst of your meeting place;
mthey set up their nown signs for osigns.
5They were like those who swing paxes
in a forest of trees. ▼
▼The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
6And all its rcarved wood
they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
7They sset your sanctuary on fire;
they tprofaned uthe dwelling place of your name,
bringing it down to the ground.
8They vsaid to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”;
they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
9 We do not see our wsigns;
xthere is no longer any prophet,
and there is none among us who knows how long.
10How long, O God, yis the foe to scoff?
Is the enemy to revile your name forever?
11Why zdo you hold back your hand, your right hand?
Take it from the fold of your garment ▼
▼Hebrew from your bosom
and destroy them!
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