Psalm 74

Prayer for Israel

A Maskil of Asaph.(A)

Why have you rejected us forever, God?
Why does your anger burn
against the sheep of your pasture?(B)
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)
Make your way[a] to the perpetual ruins,
to all that the enemy has destroyed in the sanctuary.(E)
Your adversaries roared in the meeting place
where you met with us.[b]
They set up their emblems as signs.(F)
It was like men in a thicket of trees,
wielding axes,(G)
then smashing all the carvings
with hatchets and picks.(H)
They set your sanctuary on fire;
they utterly[c] desecrated
the dwelling place of your name.(I)
They said in their hearts,
“Let’s oppress them relentlessly.”
They burned every place throughout the land
where God met with us.[d](J)

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Footnotes

  1. 74:3 Lit Lift up your steps
  2. 74:4 Lit in your meeting place
  3. 74:7 Lit they to the ground
  4. 74:8 Lit every meeting place of God in the land

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