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Psalm 74
Plea for Help in Time of National Humiliation
A Maskil of Asaph.
1 # Deut 29.20; Ps 44.9, 23 O God, why do you cast us off forever?
Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
2 # Deut 32.6; Ps 77.15 Remember your congregation, which you acquired long ago,
which you redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage.
Remember Mount Zion, where you came to dwell.
3 # Ps 79.1; Isa 61.4 Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins;
the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary.
4 # Num 2.2; Lam 2.7 Your foes have roared within your holy place;
they set up their emblems there.
5 # Jer 46.22 At the upper entrance they hacked
the wooden trellis with axes.#74.5 Cn Compare Gk Syr: Meaning of Heb uncertain
6And then, with hatchets and hammers,
they smashed all its carved work.
7 # 2 Kings 25.9 They set your sanctuary on fire;
they desecrated the dwelling place of your name,
bringing it to the ground.
8 # Ps 83.4 They said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”;
they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
9 # 1 Sam 3.1; Ps 78.43 We do not see our emblems;
there is no longer any prophet,
and there is no one among us who knows how long.
10 # Lev 24.16 How long, O God, is the foe to scoff?
Is the enemy to revile your name forever?
11 # Ps 59.13 Why do you hold back your hand;
why do you keep your hand in#74.11 Cn: Heb do you consume your right hand from your bosom?
12 # Ps 44.4 Yet God my King is from of old,
working salvation in the earth.
13 # Isa 51.9 You divided the sea by your might;
you broke the heads of the dragons in the waters.
14You crushed the heads of Leviathan;
you gave him as food#74.14 Heb food for the people for the creatures of the wilderness.
15 # Ex 17.5, 6; Num 20.11; Josh 3.13 You cut openings for springs and torrents;
you dried up ever-flowing streams.
16 # Ps 104.19 Yours is the day, yours also the night;
you established the luminaries#74.16 Or moon; Heb light and the sun.
17 # Gen 8.22 You have fixed all the bounds of the earth;
you made summer and winter.
18 # v 10 ; Ps 39.8Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy scoffs,
and an impious people reviles your name.
19 # Ps 9.18; Song 2.14 Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild animals;
do not forget the life of your poor forever.
20 # Gen 17.7; Ps 88.6; 106.45 Have regard for your#74.20 Gk Syr: Heb the covenant,
for the dark places of the land are full of the haunts of violence.
21 # Ps 35.10; 103.6 Do not let the downtrodden be put to shame;
let the poor and needy praise your name.
22 # v 18 ; Ps 43.1Rise up, O God, plead your cause;
remember how the impious scoff at you all day long.
23 # v 10 ; Ps 65.7Do not forget the clamor of your foes,
the uproar of your adversaries that goes up continually.

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