{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/kjv/psa074.htm","path":"bib/kjv/psa074.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/kjv/psa074.htm","text":"1\u00a0O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?\n \n2\u00a0Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.\n \n3\u00a0Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.\n \n4\u00a0Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.\n \n5\u00a0A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.\n \n6\u00a0But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.\n \n7\u00a0They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.\n \n8\u00a0They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.\n \n9\u00a0We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.\n \n10\u00a0O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?\n \n11\u00a0Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.\n \n12\u00a0For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.\n \n13\u00a0Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.\n \n14\u00a0Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.\n \n15\u00a0Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.\n \n16\u00a0The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.\n \n17\u00a0Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.\n \n18\u00a0Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.\n \n19\u00a0O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.\n \n20\u00a0Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.\n \n21\u00a0O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.\n \n22\u00a0Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.\n \n23\u00a0Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.","title":"King James Version: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 74","type":"page"}