Book of Psalms, No. 74
Psalms 74 NWT - New World TranslationNo. 74 of the Psalms—New World Translation (NWT)
- ¶ Why, O God, have you cast off forever?1
Why does your anger keep smoking against the flock of your pasturage?2 - ¶ Remember your assembly that you acquired long ago,3
The tribe that you redeemed as your inheritance,4
This Mount Zion in which you have resided.5 - ¶ Do lift up your steps to the long-lasting desolations.6
Everything the enemy has treated badly in the holy place.7 - ¶ Those showing hostility to you have roared in the middle of your meeting place.8
They have set their own signs as [the] signs.9 - ¶ One is notorious in being like him that brings up axes on high against a thicket of trees.
- ¶ And now the very engravings of it, one and all, they strike even with hatchet and iron-tipped beams.10
- ¶ They have thrust your sanctuary into the fire itself.11
They have profaned the tabernacle of your name to the very earth.12 - ¶ They, even their offspring, have said together in their own heart:
“All the meeting places of God[a] must be burned in the land.”13 - ¶ Our signs we have not seen; there is no prophet anymore,14
And there is no one with us knowing how long. - ¶ How long, O God, will the adversary keep reproaching?15
Will the enemy keep treating your name with disrespect forever?16 - ¶ Why do you keep your hand, even your right hand, withdrawn17
From the midst of your bosom to make an end [of us]? - ¶ And yet God is my King from long ago,18
The One performing grand salvation in the midst of the earth.19 - ¶ You yourself stirred up the sea with your own strength;20
You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.21 - ¶ You yourself crushed to pieces the heads of Le·viʹa·than.[b]22
You proceeded to give it as food to the people, to those inhabiting the waterless regions.23 - ¶ You were the One that split the spring and the torrent;24
You yourself dried up ever-flowing rivers.25 - ¶ To you the day belongs; also, to you the night belongs.26
You yourself prepared the luminary, even the sun.27 - ¶ It was you that set up all the boundaries of the earth;28
Summer and winter—you yourself formed them.29 - ¶ Remember this: The enemy himself has reproached, O Jehovah,30
And a senseless people have treated your name with disrespect.31 - ¶ Do not give to the wild beast the soul of your turtledove.32
Do not forget the very life of your afflicted ones forever.33 - ¶ Take a look at the covenant,34
For the dark places of the earth have become full of the abodes of violence.35 - ¶ O may the crushed one not return humiliated.36
May the afflicted one and the poor one praise your name.37 - ¶ Do arise, O God, do conduct your own case at law.38
Remember your reproach from the senseless one all day long.39 - ¶ Do not forget the voice of those showing hostility to you.40
The noise of those rising up against you is ascending constantly.41
FOOTNOTES
- ^ “God.” Heb., ʼEl.
- ^ “Leviathan,” MSy; T, “the strong ones of Pharaoh”; LXXVg, “the dragon.”
REFERENCES
- ^ Ps 10:1; 44:23; La 5:20
- ^ De 29:20; Ps 95:7; 100:3
- ^ De 9:29
- ^ De 4:20; 32:9; Ps 33:12; Je 10:16; Mc 7:14
- ^ Ps 48:2; 78:68; 132:13
- ^ Da 9:17; Mc 1:3
- ^ Ps 79:1
- ^ La 2:7
- ^ Mt 24:24; Mr 13:22
- ^ 1Ki 6:18, 35
- ^ 2Ki 25:9; Is 64:11
- ^ Ps 89:39
- ^ Ps 83:4
- ^ 1Sa 3:1; Am 8:11
- ^ Ps 13:2; 79:4
- ^ Eze 36:23
- ^ Ps 44:23; Is 64:12; La 2:3
- ^ Is 33:22
- ^ Ex 15:2; Hab 3:13
- ^ Ex 14:21; Ne 9:11; Ps 78:13; 106:9
- ^ Ex 14:28; Ps 136:15; Is 51:9; Eze 29:3; 32:2
- ^ Jb 3:8; 41:1; Ps 104:26
- ^ Ex 14:30; Nu 14:9
- ^ Jos 3:13; Is 48:21
- ^ Re 16:12
- ^ Ge 1:3, 5; Ps 136:7
- ^ Ge 1:14; Ps 136:8; Mt 5:45
- ^ Ac 17:26
- ^ Ge 8:22
- ^ Ps 74:10; Is 52:5
- ^ Ex 5:2; 2Ch 32:14; Is 37:23
- ^ Sg 2:14
- ^ Ps 68:10
- ^ Ge 17:7; Le 26:45; Ps 105:9; 106:45; Je 33:21
- ^ Ro 1:27
- ^ Ps 12:5
- ^ Ezr 3:11
- ^ Ps 9:19
- ^ Ps 89:51; Is 52:5
- ^ Ps 2:2; 8:2; 10:5
- ^ Is 37:29
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