Psalm 74

²⁰The Lord will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The Lord will blot out his name from under heaven

¹³Then we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, will thank You forever; from generation to generation we will declare Your praise.

³Know that the Lord is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.

²⁶But because you are not My sheep, you refuse to believe.

²⁷My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.

⁹But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.

³¹‘You are My flock, the sheep of My pasture, My people, and I am your God,’ declares the Lord God.”

¹⁶The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and Israel is the tribe of His inheritance—the Lord of Hosts is His name.

¹³With loving devotion You will lead the people You have redeemed; with Your strength You will guide them to Your holy dwelling.

⁹But the Lord’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance.

¹⁶and terror and dread will fall on them. By the power of Your arm they will be as still as a stone until Your people pass by, O Lord, until the people You have bought pass by.

⁴For the Lord has chosen Jacob as His own, Israel as His treasured possession.

²⁰Yet the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, as you are today.

¹⁰The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary—those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.

¹A Psalm of Asaph. The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.

¹⁷So now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of Your servant. For Your sake, O Lord, cause Your face to shine upon Your desolate sanctuary.

²⁴They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

¹⁷Then Jesus began to teach them, and He declared, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”

¹⁰Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.

¹¹Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.

⁷The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the Lord as on the day of an appointed feast.

¹⁵So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand),

²“The Israelites are to camp around the Tent of Meeting at a distance from it, each man under his standard, with the banners of his family.

²⁷He delivers and rescues; He performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth, for He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions.”

¹⁷So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar,

⁶And the beast opened its mouth to speak blasphemies against God and to slander His name and His tabernacle—those who dwell in heaven.

²²Egypt will hiss like a fleeing serpent, for the enemy will advance in force; with axes they will come against her like woodsmen cutting down trees.

²³They will chop down her forest, declares the Lord, dense though it may be, for they are more numerous than locusts; they cannot be counted.

¹⁴He is the son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father is a man of Tyre. He is skilled in work with gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, purple, blue, and crimson yarn, and fine linen. He is experienced in every kind of engraving and can execute any design that is given him. He will work with your craftsmen and with those of my lord, your father David.

⁶Now therefore, order that cedars of Lebanon be cut down for me. My servants will be with your servants, and I will pay your servants whatever wages you set, for you know that there are none among us as skilled in logging as the Sidonians.”

¹⁸The cedar paneling inside the temple was carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; not a stone could be seen.

³⁵He carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and he overlaid them with gold hammered evenly over the carvings.

²⁹Then he carved the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer sanctuaries, with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.

³²The double doors were made of olive wood, and he carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with hammered gold.

⁹He burned down the house of the Lord, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.

³⁹You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.

¹¹Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.

⁵Instead, you must seek the place the Lord your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.

²¹Tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord God says: ‘I am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and the delight of your soul. And the sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.’

⁷The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.

⁴saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

⁸Then Haman informed King Xerxes, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples of every province of your kingdom. Their laws are different from everyone else’s, and they do not obey the king’s laws. So it is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.

⁹If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will deposit ten thousand talents of silver into the royal treasury to pay those who carry it out.”

⁵Then the sons of the prophets at Jericho came up to Elisha and said, “Do you know that the Lord will take your master away from you today?” “Yes, I know,” he replied. “Do not speak of it.”

²³“Why would you go to him today?” he replied. “It is not a New Moon or a Sabbath.” “Everything is all right,” she said.

²³Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.

⁷Remember, O Lord, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”

¹¹Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord God, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.

²⁶Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction from the priests will perish, as will counsel from the elders.

¹And the boy Samuel ministered to the Lord before Eli. Now in those days the word of the Lord was rare, and visions were scarce.

⁹Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the Lord.

¹³The blood on the houses where you are staying will be a sign; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will fall on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

⁶Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.

¹⁰And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge those who dwell upon the earth and avenge our blood?”

⁵⁰Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people—

⁵¹how Your enemies have taunted, O Lord, and have mocked every step of Your anointed one!

⁴We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.

⁵How long, O Lord? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

⁴⁶How long, O Lord? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?

⁶One of them said to the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long until the fulfillment of these wonders?”

¹⁶at the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy, bent on revenge.

³In fierce anger He has cut off every horn of Israel and withdrawn His right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.

⁶⁵Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.

⁶⁶He beat back His foes; He put them to everlasting shame.

¹²After all this, O Lord, will You restrain Yourself? Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?

²³Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.

²²For the Lord is our Judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our King. It is He who will save us.

⁴You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.

⁵Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.

⁶And unto Me you shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you are to speak to the Israelites.”

²The Lord is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.

³The Lord is a warrior, the Lord is His name.

⁸For He said, “They are surely My people, sons who will not be disloyal.” So He became their Savior.

²¹He considers no disaster for Jacob; He sees no trouble for Israel. The Lord their God is with them, and the shout of the King is among them.

²²God brought them out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox.

²¹Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the Lord drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided,

¹³He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.

⁹Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?

¹⁰Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?

³Speak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord God says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it myself.’

²“Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: ‘You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas. You thrash about in your rivers, churning up the waters with your feet and muddying the streams.’

¹³He divided the Red Sea in two His loving devotion endures forever.

¹⁴and led Israel through the midst, His loving devotion endures forever.

¹In that day the Lord will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.

¹“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?

²Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?

⁹May the nomads bow before him, and his enemies lick the dust.

²⁵Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.

²⁶There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.

⁸May it be cursed by those who curse the day—those prepared to rouse Leviathan.

⁹Only do not rebel against the Lord, and do not be afraid of the people of the land, for they will be like bread for us. Their protection has been removed, and the Lord is with us. Do not be afraid of them!”

¹¹Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff, so that a great amount of water gushed out, and the congregation and their livestock were able to drink.

⁵And the Lord said to Moses, “Walk on ahead of the people and take some of the elders of Israel with you. Take along in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.

⁶Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. And when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.

¹³When the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the Lord—the Lord of all the earth—touch down in the waters of the Jordan, its flowing waters will be cut off and will stand up in a heap.”

¹⁴So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carried the ark of the covenant ahead of them.

⁴¹He opened a rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert.

²¹They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts; He made water flow for them from the rock; He split the rock, and water gushed out.

¹⁰For we have heard how the Lord dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites across the Jordan, whom you devoted to destruction.

³And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

⁴And God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.

⁴⁵that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

⁷He made the great lights—His loving devotion endures forever.

⁸the sun to rule the day, His loving devotion endures forever.

¹⁹He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows when to set.

¹⁴And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.

¹⁵And let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth.” And it was so.

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.

²Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.

⁸When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.

²⁶From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.

²²As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”

¹⁷Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”

¹A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.

²For He has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters.

⁸Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of fools.

¹⁹The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. And God remembered Babylon the great and gave her the cup of the wine of the fury of His wrath.

⁶Is this how you repay the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?

²²Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long.

²⁷if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the Lord who did all this.’”

¹⁴But I acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

¹⁴O my dove in the clefts of the rock, in the crevices of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your countenance is lovely.

⁵Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?

⁶But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?

¹⁸For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.

¹⁶Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

¹³Though you lie down among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver, and her feathers with shimmering gold.”

²May he judge Your people with righteousness and Your afflicted with justice.

⁴⁵And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.

⁷I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

⁸And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”

¹⁰For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.

³⁴I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.

³⁵Once and for all I have sworn by My holiness—I will not lie to David—

²⁸I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.

⁸He remembers His covenant forever, the word He ordained for a thousand generations—

⁵“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the Lord. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”

¹¹And they sang responsively with praise and thanksgiving to the Lord: “For He is good; for His loving devotion to Israel endures forever.” Then all the people gave a great shout of praise to the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord had been laid.

¹⁰All my bones will exclaim, “Who is like You, O Lord, who delivers the afflicted from the aggressor, the poor and needy from the robber?”

¹⁸For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.

⁶The Lord executes righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.

¹⁷But Israel will be saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation; you will not be put to shame or humiliated, to ages everlasting.

¹⁸Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O Lord, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.

¹For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath. A Maskil of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their ways are vile. There is no one who does good.

⁵And now what have I here? declares the Lord. For My people have been taken without cause; those who rule them taunt, declares the Lord, and My name is blasphemed continually all day long.

¹⁹Rise up, O Lord, do not let man prevail; let the nations be judged in Your presence.

²⁰Lay terror upon them, O Lord; let the nations know they are but men. Selah

⁹Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; deliver us and atone for our sins, for the sake of Your name.

¹⁰Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.

⁴I say to the proud, ‘Do not boast,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn.

⁵Do not lift up your horn against heaven or speak with an outstretched neck.’”

⁷You stilled the roaring of the seas, the pounding of their waves, and the tumult of the nations.

²⁹Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’

¹⁴They will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will triumph over them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and He will be accompanied by His called and chosen and faithful ones.”

⁴Your foes have roared within Your meeting place; they have unfurled their banners as signs,

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?

²“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”