74: 2 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast gotten of old, Which thou hast ransomed to be the tribe of thine inheritance; And mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
74: 3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins, 458All the evil that the enemy hath done in the Holy.
458Or, The enemy hath wrought all evil in the Holy.
74: 4 Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine assembly; They have set up their ensigns for signs.
74: 5 They 459seem as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket of trees.
459Or, make themselves known as
74: 6 And now all the carved work thereof They break down with hatchet and hammers.
74: 7 They have set thy sanctuary on fire; They have profaned the dwelling-place of thy name by casting it to the ground.
74: 8 They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether: They have burned up all the 460synagogues of God in the earth.
460Or, places of assembly of God in the land.
74: 9 We see not our signs: There is no more any prophet; Neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
74: 10 How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
74: 11 Why drawest thou back thy hand, even thy right hand? Pluck it out of thy bosom and consume them.
74: 12 Yet God is my King of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth.
74: 13 Thou didst 461divide the sea by thy strength: Thou brakest the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.
461Hb. break up the sea by thy strength:
74: 14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces; Thou gavest him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
74: 15 Thou didst cleave fountain and flood: Thou driedst up 462mighty rivers.
462Or, ever-flowing rivers.
74: 16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: Thou hast prepared the 463light and the sun.
463Hb. luminary
74: 17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: Thou hast made summer and winter.
74: 18 Remember this, that the enemy 464hath reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.
464Or, hath reproached Jehovah,
74: 19 Oh deliver not 465the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast: Forget not the 466life of thy poor for ever.
465Or, thy turtle-dove unto the greedy multitude:
466Or, multitude
74: 20 Have respect unto the covenant; For the dark places of the 467earth are full of the habitations of violence.
467Or, land
74: 21 Oh let not the oppressed return ashamed: Let the poor and needy praise thy name.
74: 22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: Remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day.
74: 23 Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: The tumult of those that rise up against thee 468ascendeth continually.
468Or, which ascendeth continually.
