Psalm 74
Douay-Rheims 1899
Chapter overview
Psalm 74 is a communal lament over a desecrated sanctuary and the apparent silence that follows. Amid ruins, the people remember God's ancient mastery of seas, day, night, and seasons, then plead for covenant faithfulness and renewed action.
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1Unto the end, corrupt not, a psalm of a canticle for Asaph.
2We will praise thee, O God: we will praise, and we will call upon thy name. We will relate thy wondrous works:
3When I shall take a time, I will judge justices.
4The earth is melted, and all that dwell therein: I have established the pillars thereof.
5I said to the wicked: Do not act wickedly: and to the sinners: Lift not up the horn.
6Lift not up your horn on high: speak not iniquity against God.
7For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert hills:
8For God is the judge. One he putteth down, and another he lifteth up:
9For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup of strong wine full of mixture. And he hath poured it out from this to that: but the dregs thereof are not emptied: all the sinners of the earth shall drink.
10But I will declare for ever: I will sing to the God of Jacob.
11And I will break all the horns of sinners: but the horns of the just shall be exalted.
Douay-Rheims 1899 — Public Domain. Where these translations come from.