An instruction: of Asaph.

74 Why, O God, hast thou cast off for ever? [why] doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

² Remember thine assembly, which thou hast purchased of old, which thou hast redeemed [to be] the portion of thine inheritance, this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

³ Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.

⁴ Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs [for] signs.

⁵ [A man] was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees;

⁶ And now they break down its carved work altogether, with hatchets and hammers.

⁷ They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitation of thy name to the ground.

⁸ They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all God's places of assembly in the land.

⁹ We see not our signs; there is no more any prophet, neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

¹⁰ How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy contemn thy name for ever?

¹¹ Why withdrawest thou thy hand, and thy right hand? [pluck it] out of thy bosom: consume [them].

¹² But God is my king of old, accomplishing deliverances in the midst of the earth.

¹³ *Thou* didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst break the heads of the monsters on the waters:

¹⁴ *Thou* didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert.

¹⁵ *Thou* didst cleave fountain and torrent, *thou* driedst up ever-flowing rivers.

¹⁶ The day is thine, the night also is thine; *thou* hast prepared the moon and the sun:

¹⁷ *Thou* hast set all the borders of the earth; summer and winter—*thou* didst form them.

¹⁸ Remember this, that an enemy hath reproached Jehovah, and a foolish people have contemned thy name.

¹⁹ Give not up the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the troop of thine afflicted for ever.

²⁰ Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence.

²¹ Oh let not the oppressed one return ashamed; let the afflicted and needy praise thy name.

²² Rise up, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day;

²³ Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: the tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually.

To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' A Psalm of Asaph: a Song.

75 Unto thee we give thanks, O God, we give thanks; and thy name is near: thy marvellous works declare it.

² When I shall receive the assembly, I will judge with equity.

³ The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I have established its pillars. Selah.

⁴ I said unto the boastful, Boast not; and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

⁵ Lift not up your horn on high; speak not arrogantly with a [stiff] neck.

⁶ For not from the east nor from the west, nor yet from the south doth exaltation [come]:

⁷ For God is the judge; he putteth down one and exalteth another.

⁸ For in the hand of Jehovah there is a cup, and it foameth with wine, it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same; yea, the dregs thereof shall all the wicked of the earth drain off, [and] drink.

⁹ But as for me, I will declare for ever; I will sing psalms to the God of Jacob.

¹⁰ And all the horns of the wicked will I cut off; [but] the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph: a Song.

76 In Judah is God known, his name is great in Israel;

² And in Salem is his tent, and his dwelling-place in Zion.

³ There broke he the flashings of the bow, shield and sword and battle. Selah.

⁴ More glorious art thou, more excellent, than the mountains of prey.

⁵ The stout-hearted are made a spoil, they have slept their sleep; and none of the men of might have found their hands.

⁶ At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.

⁷ Thou, thou art to be feared, and who can stand before thee when once thou art angry?

⁸ Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from the heavens; the earth feared, and was still,

⁹ When God rose up to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.

¹⁰ For the fury of man shall praise thee; the remainder of fury wilt thou gird on thyself.

¹¹ Vow and pay unto Jehovah your God: let all that are round about him bring presents unto him that is to be feared.

¹² He cutteth off the spirit of princes; [he] is terrible to the kings of the earth.