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Psalm 74 · Book Three · Asaph

A Maskil of Asaph.

The Hebrew title · Berean Standard Bible

Maskil

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Written after the holy place was wrecked: they have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground. What hurts most in it is the silence — we see not our signs: there is no more any prophet. Asaph answers by rehearsing what God has done before, dividing the sea and cutting the rivers, and by asking him to remember.

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¹O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?²Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old;the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed;this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.³Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations;even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.⁴Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations;they set up their ensigns for signs.⁵A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.⁶But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.⁷They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.⁸They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together:they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.⁹We see not our signs:there is no more any prophet:neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.¹⁰O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?¹¹Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.¹²For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.¹³Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength:thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.¹⁴Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.¹⁵Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood:thou driedst up mighty rivers.¹⁶The day is thine, the night also is thine:thou hast prepared the light and the sun.¹⁷Thou hast set all the borders of the earth:thou hast made summer and winter.¹⁸Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.¹⁹O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked:forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.²⁰Have respect unto the covenant:for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.²¹O let not the oppressed return ashamed:let the poor and needy praise thy name.²²Arise, O God, plead thine own cause:remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.²³Forget not the voice of thine enemies:the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.

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