Sept.
16
Psalms
74-76
Psa
74:1 God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger
smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
Psa
74:2 Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which
you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; Mount Zion, in
which you have lived.
Psa
74:3 Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the
enemy has done in the sanctuary.
Psa
74:4 Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly.
They have set up their standards as signs.
Psa
74:5 They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket
of trees.
Psa
74:6 Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and
hammers.
Psa
74:7 They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have
profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
Psa
74:8 They said in their heart, "We will crush them completely."
They have burned up all the places in the land where God was
worshiped.
Psa
74:9 We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet,
neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
Psa
74:10 How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy
blaspheme your name forever?
Psa
74:11 Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it
out of your pocket and consume them!
Psa
74:12 Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of
the earth.
Psa
74:13 You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of
the sea monsters in the waters.
Psa
74:14 You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as
food to people and desert creatures.
Psa
74:15 You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.
Psa
74:16 The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared
the light and the sun.
Psa
74:17 You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made
summer and winter.
Psa
74:18 Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish
people have blasphemed your name.
Psa
74:19 Don't deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don't
forget the life of your poor forever.
Psa
74:20 Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark
places of the earth.
Psa
74:21 Don't let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy
praise your name.
Psa
74:22 Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man
mocks you all day.
Psa
74:23 Don't forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of
those who rise up against you ascends continually.
Psa
75:1 We give thanks to you, God. We give thanks, for your Name is
near. Men tell about your wondrous works.
Psa
75:2 When I choose the appointed time, I will judge blamelessly.
Psa
75:3 The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its
pillars. Selah.
Psa
75:4 I said to the arrogant, "Don't boast!" I said to the
wicked, "Don't lift up the horn.
Psa
75:5 Don't lift up your horn on high. Don't speak with a stiff
neck."
Psa
75:6 For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the
south, comes exaltation.
Psa
75:7 But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.
Psa
75:8 For in the hand of Yahweh there is a cup, full of foaming wine
mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth
drink and drink it to its very dregs.
Psa
75:9 But I will declare this forever: I will sing praises to the God
of Jacob.
Psa
75:10 I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of
the righteous shall be lifted up.
Psa
76:1 In Judah, God is known. His name is great in Israel.
Psa
76:2 His tabernacle is also in Salem; His dwelling place in Zion.
Psa
76:3 There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow, the shield, and
the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah.
Psa
76:4 Glorious are you, and excellent, more than mountains of game.
Psa
76:5 Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep.
None of the men of war can lift their hands.
Psa
76:6 At your rebuke, God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast
into a deep sleep.
Psa
76:7 You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight
when you are angry?
Psa
76:8 You pronounced judgment from heaven. The earth feared, and was
silent,
Psa
76:9 when God arose to judgment, to save all the afflicted ones of
the earth. Selah.
Psa
76:10 Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your
wrath are restrained.
Psa
76:11 Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfill them! Let all of his
neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.
Psa
76:12 He will cut off the spirit of princes. He is feared by the
kings of the earth.