{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Psalms",
 "chapter": 74,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "[Maschil of Asaph.] O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?"
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?"
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun."
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name."
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever."
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty."
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name."
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily."
  },
  {
   "v": 23,
   "t": "Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually."
  }
 ],
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}