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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.

²³The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
²⁴And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
²⁵If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.
²⁶And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;
²⁷Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.
²⁸But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.
²⁹And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.
³⁰And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.
³¹But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.

¹⁹But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.
²⁰For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.
²¹For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.
²²But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
²³Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.
²⁴But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.
²⁵Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.
²⁶For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.
²⁷For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
²⁸I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
²⁹Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:
³⁰Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.