# Psalms 74 [[Psalms 73|←]] • [[Psalms 75|→]] --- Maschil of Asaph. ### 1 O God, why hast thou cast off for ever? doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? ### 2 Remember thy congregation, thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt. ### 3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; all the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. ### 4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns signs. ### 5 was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees. ### 6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers. ### 7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled the dwelling place of thy name to the ground. ### 8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land. ### 9 We see not our signs: no more any prophet: neither among us any that knoweth how long. ### 10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever? ### 11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck out of thy bosom. ### 12 For God my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. ### 13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. ### 14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, gavest him meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness. ### 15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers. ### 16 The day thine, the night also thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. ### 17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter. ### 18 Remember this, the enemy hath reproached, O Lord, and the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. ### 19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever. ### 20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. ### 21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name. ### 22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily. ### 23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.