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Psalm 74 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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Arise, O God, Defend Your Cause

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:1 - A Maskil[fn] of Asaph.
O God, why do you cast us off forever?
Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:2 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:3 - Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins;
the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:4 - Your foes have roared in the midst of your meeting place;
they set up their own signs for signs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:5 - They were like those who swing axes
in a forest of trees.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:6 - And all its carved wood
they broke down with hatchets and hammers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:7 - They set your sanctuary on fire;
they profaned the dwelling place of your name,
bringing it down to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:8 - They said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”;
they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:9 - We do not see our signs;
there is no longer any prophet,
and there is none among us who knows how long.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:10 - How long, O God, is the foe to scoff?
Is the enemy to revile your name forever?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:11 - Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand?
Take it from the fold of your garment[fn] and destroy them!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:12 - Yet God my King is from of old,
working salvation in the midst of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:13 - You divided the sea by your might;
you broke the heads of the sea monsters[fn] on the waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:14 - You crushed the heads of Leviathan;
you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:15 - You split open springs and brooks;
you dried up ever-flowing streams.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:16 - Yours is the day, yours also the night;
you have established the heavenly lights and the sun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:17 - You have fixed all the boundaries of the earth;
you have made summer and winter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:18 - Remember this, O LORD, how the enemy scoffs,
and a foolish people reviles your name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:19 - Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild beasts;
do not forget the life of your poor forever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:20 - Have regard for the covenant,
for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:21 - Let not the downtrodden turn back in shame;
let the poor and needy praise your name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:22 - Arise, O God, defend your cause;
remember how the foolish scoff at you all the day!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:23 - Do not forget the clamor of your foes,
the uproar of those who rise against you, which goes up continually!
See the ESV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
ESV Footnotes
Probably a musical or liturgical term
The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Hebrew from your bosom
Or the great sea creatures
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Psalm Chapter 74 — Additional Translations:

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