Psalms 73
1Therefore have you rejected us, O God, for ever? therefore is your wrath kindled against the sheep of your pasture? 1
2Remember your congregation which you have purchased from the beginning; you did ransom the rod of your inheritance; this mount Sion wherein you have lived. 1
3Lift up your hands against their pride continually; because of all that the enemy has done wickedly in your holy places. 1
4And they that hate you have boasted in the midst of your feast; they have set up their standards for signs, 1
5ignorantly as it were in the entrance above; 1
6they cut down its doors at once with axes as in a wood of trees; they have broken it down with hatchet and stone cutter. 1
7They have burnt your sanctuary with fire to the ground; they have profaned the + 73:7 Gr. tabernacle. habitation of your name. 1
8They have said in their heart, even all their kindred together, Come, let us abolish the feasts of the Lord from the earth. 1
9We have not seen our signs; there is no longer a prophet; and God will not know us any more. 1
10How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach? shall the enemy provoke your name forever? 1
11Therefore turn you away your hand, and your right hand from the midst of your bosom for ever? 1
12But God is our King + 73:12 Gr. before the age. of old; he has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth. 1
13You did establish the sea, in your might, you did break to pieces the heads of the + 73:13 Or, serpents. dragons in the water. 1
14You did break to pieces the heads of the dragon; you did give him for meat to the Ethiopian nations. 1
15You did cleave fountains and torrents; you dried up + 73:15 Heb. rivers of Etham. mighty rivers. 1
16The day is yours, and the night is yours; you have prepared the sun and the moon. 1
17You have made all the borders of the earth; you have made summer and spring. 1
18Remember this your creation: an enemy has reproached the Lord, and a foolish people has provoked your name. 1
19Deliver not to the wild beasts a soul that gives praise to you: forget not for ever the souls of your poor. 1
20Look upon your covenant: for the dark places of the earth are filled with the habitations of iniquity. 1
21let not the afflicted and shamed one be rejected: the poor and needy shall praise your name. 1
22Arise, O God, plead your cause: remember your reproaches that come from the foolish one all the day. 1
23Forget not the voice of your suppliants: let the pride of them that hate you continually ascend before you.