Psa 74:2-8, 79:1-4, 83:1-5, Isa 10:6-7, 47:6, Jer 50:17, 51:34-35 | ESV | STEP | Remember your congregation , which you have purchased of old , which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage ! Remember Mount Zion , where you have dwelt .

Psalms 74:2-8

2 ^aRemember your congregation, which you have ^bpurchased of old,
which you have ^credeemed to be ^dthe tribe of your heritage!
Remember Mount Zion, ^ewhere you have dwelt.
3 Direct your steps to ^fthe perpetual ruins;
the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!
4 Your foes have ^groared in the midst of your meeting place;
^hthey set up their ⁱown signs for ^jsigns.
5 They were like those who swing ^kaxes
in a forest of trees. ^{▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain}
6 And all its ^mcarved wood
they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
7 They ⁿset your sanctuary on fire;
they ^oprofaned ^pthe dwelling place of your name,
bringing it down to the ground.
8 They ^qsaid to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”;
they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

Psalms 79:1-4

How Long, O Lord?

A Psalm of ^rAsaph.

1 O God, ^sthe nations have come into your ^tinheritance;
they have defiled your ^uholy temple;
they have ^vlaid Jerusalem in ruins.
2 They have given ^wthe bodies of your servants
to the birds of the heavens for food,
the flesh of your ^xfaithful to ^ythe beasts of the earth.
3 They have poured out their blood like water
all around Jerusalem,
and there was ^zno one to bury them.
4 We have become ^aaa taunt to our neighbors,
^abmocked and derided by those around us.

Psalms 83:1-5

O God, Do Not Keep Silence

A Song. A Psalm of ^acAsaph.

1 O God, do not keep silence;
^addo not hold your peace or be still, O God!
2 For behold, your enemies ^aemake an uproar;
those who hate you have ^afraised their heads.
3 They lay ^agcrafty plans against your people;
they consult together against your ^ahtreasured ones.
4 They say, “Come, ^ailet us wipe them out as a nation;
let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”
5 For they conspire with one accord;
against you they make a covenant—

Isaiah 10:6-7

6 Against a ^ajgodless nation I send him,
and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take ^akspoil and seize plunder,
and to ^altread them down like the mire of the streets.
7 But he ^amdoes not so intend,
and his heart does not so think;
but it is in his heart to destroy,
and to cut off nations not a few;

Isaiah 47:6

6 ^anI was angry with my people;
I profaned my heritage;
I gave them into your hand;
^aoyou showed them no mercy;
on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy.

Jeremiah 50:17

17 ^ap“Israel is a hunted sheep ^aqdriven away by lions. ^arFirst the king of Assyria ^asdevoured him, and now at last ^atNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon ^auhas gnawed his bones.

Jeremiah 51:34-35

34 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon ^avhas devoured me;
he has crushed me;
he has made me an empty vessel;
^awhe has swallowed me like ^axa monster;
he has filled his stomach with my delicacies;
he has rinsed me out. ^{▼▼Or he has expelled me}
35 The violence done to me and to my kinsmen be upon Babylon,”
let the inhabitant of Zion say.
“My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”
let Jerusalem say.