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A Lament in Time of National Defeat

A maskil of Asaph.[a]

74 Why, O God, have you rejected us forever?
Why does your anger smoke
against the sheep of your pasture?
Remember your congregation that you bought long ago,
when you redeemed the tribe of your inheritance.
Remember Mount Zion[b] where you have dwelt.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 74:1 The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm
  2. Psalm 74:2 Literally “the mountain of Zion”

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

Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

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