Psalm
74 Why, O God, have you rejected us forever?+
Why does your anger burn* against the flock of your pasture?+
Remember Mount Zion, where you have resided.+
3 Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins.+
The enemy has devastated everything in the holy place.+
4 Your foes roared inside your meeting place.*+
They have set up their own banners as signs there.
5 They were like men wielding axes against a thick forest.
6 They broke up all its engravings+ with axes and iron bars.
7 They set your sanctuary on fire.+
They profaned the tabernacle bearing your name, casting it to the ground.
8 They and their offspring have said in their hearts:
“All the meeting places of God* in the land must be burned.”
9 There are no signs for us to see;
There is no longer any prophet,
And no one among us knows how long this will last.
10 How long, O God, will the adversary keep taunting?+
Will the enemy treat your name with disrespect forever?+
11 Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand?+
Draw it out of your bosom* and put an end to them.
13 You stirred up the sea with your strength;+
You smashed the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
14 You crushed the heads of Le·viʹa·than;*
You gave it as food to the people, to those inhabiting the deserts.
16 The day belongs to you, also the night.
You made the light* and the sun.+
19 Do not surrender the life* of your turtledove to the wild beasts.
Do not forget the life of your afflicted people forever.
20 Remember the covenant,
For the dark places of the earth have become full of the haunts of violence.
22 Rise up, O God, and plead your legal case.
Remember how the foolish taunt you all day long.+
23 Do not forget what your foes are saying.
The uproar of those who defy you is ascending constantly.