Psalm 74:1-8

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 perpetual 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’s oppress them relentlessly.”
They burned every place throughout the land
where God met with us.^[d](J)