Psalms - Chapter 74 | Good News Translation

  • 1. Why have you abandoned us like this, O God? Will you be angry with your own people forever?
  • 2. Remember your people, whom you chose for yourself long ago, whom you brought out of slavery to be your own tribe. Remember Mount Zion, where once you lived.
  • 3. Walk over these total ruins; our enemies have destroyed everything in the Temple.
  • 4. Your enemies have shouted in triumph in your Temple; they have placed their flags there as signs of victory.
  • 5. They looked like woodsmen cutting down trees with their axes.
  • 6. They smashed all the wooden panels with their axes and sledge hammers.
  • 7. They wrecked your Temple and set it on fire; they desecrated the place where you are worshiped.
  • 8. They wanted to crush us completely; they burned down every holy place in the land.
  • 9. All our sacred symbols are gone; there are no prophets left, and no one knows how long this will last.
  • 10. How long, O God, will our enemies laugh at you? Will they insult your name forever?
  • 11. Why have you refused to help us? Why do you keep your hands behind you?
  • 12. But you have been our king from the beginning, O God; you have saved us many times.
  • 13. With your mighty strength you divided the sea and smashed the heads of the sea monsters;
  • 14. you crushed the heads of the monster Leviathan and fed his body to desert animals.
  • 15. You made springs and fountains flow; you dried up large rivers.
  • 16. You created the day and the night; you set the sun and the moon in their places;
  • 17. you set the limits of the earth; you made summer and winter.
  • 18. But remember, O LORD, that your enemies laugh at you, that they are godless and despise you.
  • 19. Don't abandon your helpless people to their cruel enemies; don't forget your persecuted people!
  • 20. Remember the covenant you made with us. There is violence in every dark corner of the land.
  • 21. Don't let the oppressed be put to shame; let those poor and needy people praise you.
  • 22. Rouse yourself, God, and defend your cause! Remember that godless people laugh at you all day long.
  • 23. Don't forget the angry shouts of your enemies, the continuous noise made by your foes.
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