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Psalm 74 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

Yet God Is My King

Psa 74:1

A [fn]Maskil of Asaph.

Why, O God? Have You rejected us forever?

Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your [fn]pasture?

Psa 74:2

Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old,

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

And this Mount Zion, where You have dwelt.

Psa 74:3

Lift up Your steps toward the perpetual ruins;

The enemy has damaged everything within the sanctuary.

Psa 74:4

Your adversaries have roared in the midst of Your meeting place;

They have set up their own signs for signs.

Psa 74:5

Each seems like one who lifts up

[fn]An axe against the undergrowth of trees.

Psa 74:6

And now its carved work altogether

They smash with hatchet and [fn]hammers.

Psa 74:7

They have set Your sanctuary on fire;

By bringing it to the ground, they have defiled the dwelling place of Your name.

Psa 74:8

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

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

Psa 74:9

We do not see our signs;

There is no longer any prophet,

Nor is there any among us who knows how long.

Psa 74:10

How long, O God, will the adversary reproach?

Will the enemy spurn Your name forever?

Psa 74:11

Why do You turn back Your hand, even Your right hand?

From within Your bosom, destroy them!

Psa 74:12

Yet God is my King from of old,

Who works deeds of [fn]salvation in the midst of the earth.

Psa 74:13

You divided the sea by Your strength;

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

Psa 74:14

You crushed the heads of [fn]Leviathan;

You gave him as food for the [fn]creatures of the desert.

Psa 74:15

[fn]You split open spring and river;

[fn]You dried up ever-flowing rivers.

Psa 74:16

Yours is the day, Yours also is the night;

[fn]You have established the [fn]light and the sun.

Psa 74:17

[fn]You have caused all the boundaries of the earth to stand firm;

[fn]You have formed summer and winter.

Psa 74:18

Remember this, O Yahweh, that the enemy has reproached,

And a wickedly foolish people has spurned Your name.

Psa 74:19

Do not deliver the soul of Your turtledove to the wild beast;

Do not forget the life of Your afflicted forever.

Psa 74:20

Look to the covenant;

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

Psa 74:21

Let not the oppressed return dishonored;

Let the afflicted and needy praise Your name.

Psa 74:22

Arise, O God, and plead Your own cause;

Remember [fn]how the wicked fool reproaches You all day long.

Psa 74:23

Do not forget the voice of Your adversaries,

The rumbling of those who rise against You which ascends continually.

LSB Footnotes
Possibly Contemplative, Didactic, Skillful Psalm
Or pasturing
Lit Axes
Or axes
Lit altogether
Or oppress
Lit salvations
Lit on
Or the sea monster
Lit people
Or You Yourself
Or You Yourself
Or You Yourself
Or luminary
Or You Yourself
Or You Yourself
Lit Your reproach from the wicked fool
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