LXXIV. Book III. A Complaint over the Devastation of the Land by the Enemy. 1909-14. The Book of Psalms. The Harvard Classics

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The Book of Psalms.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

Book III

LXXIV

A Complaint over the Devastation of the Land by the Enemy

Maschil of Asaph.


[1]	O GOD, why hast thou cast us off for ever? Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
[2]	Remember thy congregation, which thou hast gotten of old, Which thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of thine inheritance; And mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
[3]	Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins, All 1 the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.
[4]	Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine assembly; They have set up their ensigns for signs.
[5]	They seemed 2 as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket of trees. And now all the carved work thereof They break down with hatchet and hammers.
[6]	They have set thy sanctuary on fire; They have profaned the dwelling-place of thy name by casting it to the ground.
[7]	They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether: They have burned up all the synagogues 3 of God in the land.
[8]	We see not our signs: There is no more any prophet; Neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
[9]	How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
[10]	Why drawest thou back thy hand, even thy right hand? Pluck it out of thy bosom and consume them.

[11]	Yet God is my King of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth.
[12]	Thou didst divide 4 the sea by thy strength: Thou brakest the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.
[13]	Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces; Thou gavest him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
[14]	Thou didst cleave fountain and flood: Thou driedst up mighty 5 rivers.
[15]	The day is thine, the night also is thine: Thou hast prepared the light 6 and the sun.
[16]	Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: Thou hast made summer and winter.
[17]	Remember this, that the enemy hath 7 reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.
[18]	Oh deliver not the 8 soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast: Forget not the life 9 of thy poor for ever.
[19]	Have respect unto the covenant; For the dark places of the earth 10 are full of the habitations of violence.
[20]	Oh let not the oppressed return ashamed: Let the poor and needy praise thy name.
[21]	Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: Remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day.
[22]	Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: The tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth 11 continually.

Note 1. Or, The enemy hath wrought all evil. [back]

Note 2. Or, made themselves known. [back]

Note 3. Or, places of assembly. [back]

Note 4. Heb. break up. [back]

Note 5. Or, ever-flowing. [back]

Note 6. Heb. luminary. [back]

Note 7. Or, hath reproached Jehovah. [back]

Note 8. Or, thy turtle-dove unto the greedy multitude. [back]

Note 9. Or, multitude. [back]

Note 10. Or, land. [back]

Note 11. Or, which ascendeth. [back]

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