74 O God, why have You cast us off forever?
Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?
² Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old,
The tribe of Your inheritance, which You have redeemed—
This Mount Zion where You have dwelt.

³ Lift up Your feet to the perpetual desolations.
The enemy has damaged everything in the sanctuary.
^4 (A)Your enemies roar in the midst of Your meeting place;
^(B)They set up their banners for signs.
⁵ They seem like men who lift up
Axes among the thick trees.

⁵ They seem like men who lift up
Axes among the thick trees.
⁶ And now they break down its carved work, all at once,
With axes and hammers.
⁷ They have set fire to Your sanctuary;
They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name to the ground.

^20 (A)Have respect to the covenant;
For the ^[a]dark places of the earth are full of the ^[b]haunts of ^[c]cruelty.
²¹ Oh, do not let the oppressed return ashamed!
Let the poor and needy praise Your name.