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Psalms 73
Septuagint (LXX2012) 73 compared with World English Bible 74
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1(74) [A Psalm] of instruction for Asaph. Therefore have you rejected [us], O God, for ever? [therefore] is your wrath kindled against the sheep of your pasture?
1A contemplation by Asaph. God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
2Remember your congregationwhich you have purchased from the beginning; you did ransom the rod of your inheritance; this mount Sion wherein you have lived.
2Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance: Mount Zion, in which you have lived.
3Lift up your hands against their pride continually; [because of] all that the enemy has done wickedly in your holy places.
3Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
4And they that hate you have boasted in the midst of your feast; they have set up their standards for signs,
4Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.
5ignorantly as it were in the entrance above;
5They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.
6they cut down its doors at once with axes as in a wood of trees; they have broken it down with hatchet and stone cutter.
6Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.
7They have burnt your sanctuary with fire to the ground; they have profaned the habitation of your name.
7They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
8They have said in their heart, [even] all their kindred together, Come, let us abolish the feasts of the Lord from the earth.
8They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
9We have not seen our signs; there is no longer a prophet; and [God] will not know us any more.
9We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
10How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach? shall the enemy provoke your name forever?
10How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
11Therefore turn you away your hand, and your right handfrom the midst of your bosom for ever?
11Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it from your chest and consume them!
12But God is our King of old; he has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.
12Yet God is my King of old, working salvation throughout the earth.
13You did establish the sea, in your might, you did break to pieces the heads of the dragons in the water.
13You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
14You did break to pieces the heads of the dragon; you did give him [for] meat to the Ethiopian nations.
14You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.
15You did cleave fountains and torrents; you dried up mighty rivers.
15You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.
16The day is yours, and the night is yours; you have prepared the sun and the moon.
16The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.
17You have made all the borders of the earth; you have made summer and spring.
17You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.
18Remember this your creation: an enemy has reproached the Lord, and a foolish people has provoked your name.
18Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
19Deliver not to the wild beasts a soul that gives praise to you: forget not for ever the souls of your poor .
19Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.
20Look upon your covenant: for the dark [places] of the earth are filled with the habitations of iniquity.
20Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
21let not the afflicted and shamed one be rejected: the poor and needy shall praise your name.
21Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.
22Arise, O God, plead your cause: remember your reproaches that come from the foolish one all the day.
22Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
23Forget not the voice of your suppliants: let the pride of them that hate you continually ascend before you.
23Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.