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Maschil of Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture (74:1)

Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt (74:2)

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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