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Psalm 74

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

3I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
¹⁴I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
¹⁵He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
¹⁶He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
¹⁷And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
¹⁸And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:
¹⁹Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
²⁰My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
²¹This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
²²It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
²³They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
²⁴The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
²⁵The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
²⁶It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
²⁷It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
²⁸He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
²⁹He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
³⁰He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
³¹For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
³²But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
³³For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

¹⁶A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.
¹⁷Then said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father?
¹⁸They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith.
¹⁹Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do ye enquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me?
²⁰Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
²¹A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
²²And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
²³And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.
²⁴Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
²⁵These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.
²⁶At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you:
²⁷For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
²⁸I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
²⁹His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.
³⁰Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God.
³¹Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe?
³²Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
³³These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.