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Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary (74:3) Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs (74:4) A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees (74:5) But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers (74:6) They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground (74:7) They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land (74:8) We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long (74:9) O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever (74:10) Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom (74:11) For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth (74:12) Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters (74:13) Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness (74:14) Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers (74:15) The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun (74:16) Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter (74:17) Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Lord, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name (74:18) O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever (74:19) Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty (74:20) O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name (74:21) Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily (74:22) Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually
(74:23)
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