73:1 ^[463] KJV Chapter [74] Maschil of Asaph. [1] O God, why hast thou cast [us] off for ever? [why] doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture:

73:2 Remember thy congregation, [which] thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, [which] thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt:

73:3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; [even] all [that] the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary:

73:4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns [for] signs:

73:5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees:

73:6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers:

73:7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled [by casting down] the dwelling place of thy name to the ground:

73:8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land:

73:9 We see not our signs: [there is] no more any prophet: neither [is there] among us any that knoweth how long:

73:10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever:

73:11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck [it] out of thy bosom:

73:12 For God [is] my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth:

73:13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters:

73:14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, [and] gavest him [to be] meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness:

73:15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers:

73:16 The day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun:

73:17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter:

73:18 Remember this, [that] the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and [that] the foolish people have blasphemed thy name:

73:19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude [of the wicked]: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever:

73:20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty:

73:21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name:

73:22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily:

73:23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually: