50 lines
2.2 KiB
Markdown
50 lines
2.2 KiB
Markdown
# Chapter 74
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1 O God, why have You cast us off forever?
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Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?
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2 Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old,
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The tribe of Your inheritance, which You have redeemed—
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This Mount Zion where You have dwelt.
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3 Lift up Your feet to the perpetual desolations.
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The enemy has damaged everything in the sanctuary.
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4 Your enemies roar in the midst of Your meeting place;
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They set up their banners for signs.
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5 They seem like men who lift up
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Axes among the thick trees.
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6 And now they break down its carved work, all at once,
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With axes and hammers.
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7 They have set fire to Your sanctuary;
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They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name to the ground.
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8 They said in their hearts,
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“Let us destroy them altogether.”
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They have burned up all the meeting places of God in the land.
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9 We do not see our signs;
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There is no longer any prophet;
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Nor is there any among us who knows how long.
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10 O God, how long will the adversary reproach?
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Will the enemy blaspheme Your name forever?
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11 Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand?
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Take it out of Your bosom and destroy them.
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12 For God is my King from of old,
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Working salvation in the midst of the earth.
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13 You divided the sea by Your strength;
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You broke the heads of the sea serpents in the waters.
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14 You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces,
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And gave him as food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
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15 You broke open the fountain and the flood;
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You dried up mighty rivers.
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16 The day is Yours, the night also is Yours;
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You have prepared the light and the sun.
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17 You have set all the borders of the earth;
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You have made summer and winter.
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18 Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O Lord,
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And that a foolish people has blasphemed Your name.
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19 Oh, do not deliver the life of Your turtledove to the wild beast!
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Do not forget the life of Your poor forever.
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20 Have respect to the covenant;
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For the dark places of the earth are full of the haunts of cruelty.
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21 Oh, do not let the oppressed return ashamed!
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Let the poor and needy praise Your name.
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22 Arise, O God, plead Your own cause;
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Remember how the foolish man reproaches You daily.
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23 Do not forget the voice of Your enemies;
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The tumult of those who rise up against You increases continually. |