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Arise, O God, Defend Your Cause
Chapter 74
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O God, why do you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
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Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage! Remember Mount Zion, where you have dwelt.
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Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!
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Your foes have roared in the midst of your meeting place; they set up their own signs for signs.
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They were like those who swing axes in a forest of trees.
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And all its carved wood they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
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They set your sanctuary on fire; they profaned the dwelling place of your name, bringing it down to the ground.
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They said to themselves, "We will utterly subdue them"; they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
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We do not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet, and there is none among us who knows how long.
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How long, O God, is the foe to scoff? Is the enemy to revile your name forever?
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Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand? Take it from the fold of your garment and destroy them!
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Yet God my King is from of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
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You divided the sea by your might; you broke the heads of the sea monsters on the waters.
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You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
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You split open springs and brooks; you dried up ever-flowing streams.
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Yours is the day, yours also the night; you have established the heavenly lights and the sun.
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You have fixed all the boundaries of the earth; you have made summer and winter.
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Remember this, O LORD, how the enemy scoffs, and a foolish people reviles your name.
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Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild beasts; do not forget the life of your poor forever.
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Have regard for the covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
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Let not the downtrodden turn back in shame; let the poor and needy praise your name.
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Arise, O God, defend your cause; remember how the foolish scoff at you all the day!
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Do not forget the clamor of your foes, the uproar of those who rise against you, which goes up continually!