{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/74","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T09:33:20.258Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":74,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":73,"nextChapter":75,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":23},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"O God, why have you cast us off for ever? why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old; the rod of your inheritance, which you have redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein you have dwelled."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Lift up your feet to the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Your enemies roar in the middle of your congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes on the thick trees."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"They have cast fire into your sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of your name to the ground."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knows how long."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme your name for ever?"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Why withdraw you your hand, even your right hand? pluck it out of your bosom."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"For God is my King of old, working salvation in the middle of the earth."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"You did divide the sea by your strength: you brake the heads of the dragons in the waters."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"You brake the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gave him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"You did split the fountain and the flood: you dried up mighty rivers."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"The day is yours, the night also is yours: you have prepared the light and the sun."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"You have set all the borders of the earth: you have made summer and winter."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed your name."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"O deliver not the soul of your turtledove to the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of your poor for ever."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Have respect to the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise your name."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Arise, O God, plead your own cause: remember how the foolish man reproaches you daily."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Forget not the voice of your enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against you increases continually."}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 74 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Psalms 74](https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/74)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/74 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}