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Psalms 73

Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible

73:1

[A Psalm] of instruction for Asaph. Wherefore hast thou rejected [us], O God, for ever? [wherefore] is thy wrath kindled against the sheep of thy pasture?

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73:2

Remember thy congregation which thou hast purchased from the beginning; thou didst ransom the rod of thine inheritance; this mount Sion wherein thou hast dwelt.

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73:3

Lift up thine hands against their pride continually; [because of] all that the enemy has done wickedly in thy holy places.

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73:4

And they that hate thee have boasted in the midst of thy feast; they have set up their standards for signs,

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73:5

ignorantly as it were in the entrance above;

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73:6

they cut down its doors at once with axes as in a wood of trees; they have broken it down with hatchet and stone cutter.

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73:7

They have burnt thy sanctuary with fire to the ground; they have profaned the habitation of thy name.

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73:8

They have said in their heart, [even] all their kindred together, Come, let us abolish the feasts of the Lord from the earth.

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73:9

We have not seen our signs; there is no longer a prophet; and [God] will not know us any more.

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73:10

How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach? shall the enemy provoke thy name for ever?

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73:11

Wherefore turnest thou away thine hand, and thy right hand from the midst of thy bosom for ever?

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73:12

But God is our King of old; he has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.

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73:13

Thou didst establish the sea, in thy might, thou didst break to pieces the heads of the dragons in the water.

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73:14

Thou didst break to pieces the heads of the dragon; thou didst give him [for] meat to the Ethiopian nations.

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73:15

Thou didst cleave fountains and torrents; thou driedst up mighty rivers.

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73:16

The day is thine, and the night is thine; thou hast prepared the sun and the moon.

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73:17

Thou hast made all the borders of the earth; thou hast made summer and spring.

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73:18

Remember this thy creation: an enemy has reproached the Lord, and a foolish people has provoked thy name.

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73:19

Deliver not to the wild beasts a soul that gives praise to thee: forget not for ever the souls of thy poor.

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73:20

Look upon thy covenant: for the dark [places] of the earth are filled with the habitations of iniquity.

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73:21

Let not the afflicted and shamed one be rejected: the poor and needy shall praise thy name.

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73:22

Arise, O God, plead thy cause: remember thy reproaches that come from the foolish one all the day.

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73:23

Forget not the voice of thy suppliants: let the pride of them that hate thee continually ascend before thee.

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