{"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/dbt/psalms/74","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T01:21:56.013Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":74,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":73,"nextChapter":75,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":23},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"{An instruction: of Asaph.} Why, O God, hast thou cast off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Remember thine assembly, which thou hast purchased of old, which thou hast redeemed to be the portion of thine inheritance, this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs for signs."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"A man was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees;"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"And now they break down its carved work altogether, with hatchets and hammers."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitation of thy name to the ground."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all God's places of assembly in the land."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"We see not our signs; there is no more any prophet, neither is there among us any that knoweth how long."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy contemn thy name for ever?"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Why withdrawest thou thy hand, and thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom: consume them."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"But God is my king of old, accomplishing deliverances in the midst of the earth."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst break the heads of the monsters on the waters:"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Thou didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Thou didst cleave fountain and torrent, thou driedst up ever-flowing rivers."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"The day is thine, the night also is thine; thou hast prepared the moon and the sun:"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Thou hast set all the borders of the earth; summer and winter thou didst form them."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Remember this, that an enemy hath reproached Jehovah, and a foolish people have contemned thy name."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Give not up the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the troop of thine afflicted for ever."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Oh let not the oppressed one return ashamed; let the afflicted and needy praise thy name."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Rise up, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day;"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: the tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually."}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 74 (DBT)","markdown":"[Psalms 74](https://primebible.com/dbt/psalms/74)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/psalms/74 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}