Psalm 74 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old,

Which You have redeemed to be the tribe of Your inheritance;

Remember Mount Zion, where You have dwelt.

Turn your footsteps [quickly] toward the perpetual ruins;

The enemy has damaged everything within the sanctuary.

In the midst of Your meeting place Your enemies have roared [with their battle cry];

They have set up their own emblems for signs [of victory].

It seems as if one had lifted up

An axe in a forest of trees [to set a record of destruction].

And now all the carved work [of the meeting place]

They smash with hatchets and hammers.

They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground;

They have profaned the dwelling place of Your [fn]name.

They said in their heart, “Let us completely subdue them.”

They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

We do not see our symbols;

There is no longer any prophet [to guide us],

Nor does any among us know for how long.

O God, how long will the adversary scoff?

Is the enemy to revile Your name forever?

Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand [from judging the enemy]?

Remove Your hand from Your chest, destroy them!

Yet God is my King of old,

Working salvation in the midst of the earth.

You divided the [Red] Sea by Your strength;

You broke the heads of the [fn]sea monsters in the waters.

You crushed the heads of [fn]Leviathan (Egypt);

You gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

You broke open fountains and streams;

You dried up ever-flowing rivers.

The day is Yours, the night also is Yours;

You have established and prepared the [heavenly] light and the sun.

You have defined and established all the borders of the earth [the divisions of land and sea and of the nations];

You have made summer and winter.

Remember this, O LORD, the enemy has scoffed,

And a foolish and impious people has spurned Your name.

Oh, do not hand over the soul of your turtledove to the wild beast;

Do not forget the life of Your afflicted forever.

Consider the covenant [You made with Abraham],

For the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.

Let not the oppressed return dishonored;

Let the afflicted and needy praise Your name.

Arise, O God, plead Your own cause;

Remember how the foolish man scoffs at You all day long.

Do not forget the [clamoring] voices of Your adversaries,

The uproar of those who rise against You, which ascends continually [to Your ears].