Psalms 74

Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

Mount Zion, in which you have lived.

all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.

They have set up their standards as signs.

cutting through a thicket of trees.

Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.

They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.

They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.

neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.

Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

Take it from your chest and consume them!

working salvation throughout the earth.

You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.

You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.

You dried up mighty rivers.

You have prepared the light and the sun.

You have made summer and winter.

Foolish people have blasphemed your name.

Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.

for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.

Let the poor and needy praise your name.

Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.

The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.