Psalm 74:1-9

Holman Christian Standard Bible

¹ Why have You rejected us forever, God?
Why does Your anger burn
against the sheep of Your pasture?^(B)
2 Remember Your congregation,
which You purchased long ago
and redeemed as the tribe for Your own possession.^(C)
Remember Mount Zion where You dwell.^(D)
3 Make Your way^[a] to the everlasting ruins,
to all that the enemy has destroyed in the sanctuary.^(E)
4 Your adversaries roared in the meeting place
where You met with us.^[b]
They set up their emblems as signs.^(F)
5 It was like men in a thicket of trees,
wielding axes,^(G)
6 then smashing all the carvings
with hatchets and picks.^(H)
7 They set Your sanctuary on fire;
they utterly^[c] desecrated
the dwelling place of Your name.^(I)
8 They said in their hearts,
“Let us oppress them relentlessly.”
They burned down every place throughout the land
where God met with us.^[d](J)
9 There are no signs for us to see.
There is no longer a prophet.
And none of us knows how long this will last.^(K)