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Psalms 73
Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible
[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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A Maskil (note: Maskil is probably a musical or liturgical term; used for Psalms 32, 42, 44–45, 52–55, 74, 78, 88–89, and 142.) of Asaph. Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
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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Remember Your congregation, which You purchased long ago and redeemed as the tribe of Your inheritance—Mount Zion, where You dwell.
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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Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed.
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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Your foes have roared within Your meeting place; they have unfurled their banners as signs,
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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and smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks.
They have burnt thy sanctuary with fire to the ground; they have profaned the habitation of thy name.
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They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; they have defiled the dwelling place of Your Name.
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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They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely.” They burned down every place where God met us in the land.
We have not seen our signs; there is no longer a prophet; and [God] will not know us any more.
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There are no signs for us to see. There is no longer any prophet. And none of us knows how long this will last.
How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach? shall the enemy provoke thy name for ever?
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How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?
Wherefore turnest thou away thine hand, and thy right hand from the midst of thy bosom for ever?
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Why do You withdraw Your strong right hand? Stretch it out to destroy them (note: Literally From the midst of Your bosom destroy them! or From the midst of Your bosom remove it!)!
But God is our King of old; he has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.
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Yet God is my King from ancient times, working salvation on the earth.
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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You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;
Thou didst break to pieces the heads of the dragon; thou didst give him [for] meat to the Ethiopian nations.
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You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.
Thou didst cleave fountains and torrents; thou driedst up mighty rivers.
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You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.
The day is thine, and the night is thine; thou hast prepared the sun and the moon.
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The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon (note: Literally the light) and the sun.
Thou hast made all the borders of the earth; thou hast made summer and spring.
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You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made the summer and winter.
Remember this thy creation: an enemy has reproached the Lord, and a foolish people has provoked thy name.
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Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.
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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Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever.
Look upon thy covenant: for the dark [places] of the earth are filled with the habitations of iniquity.
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Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
Let not the afflicted and shamed one be rejected: the poor and needy shall praise thy name.
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Do not let the oppressed retreat in shame; may the poor and needy praise Your name.
Arise, O God, plead thy cause: remember thy reproaches that come from the foolish one all the day.
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Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long.
Forget not the voice of thy suppliants: let the pride of them that hate thee continually ascend before thee.
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Do not disregard the clamor of Your adversaries, the uproar of Your enemies that ascends continually.