Daily Bible GNT March 5 Verses

A Prayer for National Deliverance

Psalm 74 Why have you abandoned us like this, O God?

Will you be angry with your own people forever?

²Remember your people, whom you chose for yourself long ago,

whom you brought out of slavery to be your own tribe.

Remember Mount Zion, where once you lived.

³Walk over these total ruins;

our enemies have destroyed everything in the Temple.

⁴Your enemies have shouted in triumph in your Temple;

they have placed their flags there as signs of victory.

⁵They looked like woodsmen

cutting down trees with their axes.

⁶They smashed all the wooden panels

with their axes and sledge hammers.

⁷They wrecked your Temple and set it on fire;

they desecrated the place where you are worshiped.

⁸They wanted to crush us completely;

they burned down every holy place in the land.

⁹All our sacred symbols are gone;

there are no prophets left,

and no one knows how long this will last.

¹⁰How long, O God, will our enemies laugh at you?

Will they insult your name forever?

¹¹Why have you refused to help us?

Why do you keep your hands behind you?

¹²But you have been our king from the beginning, O God;

you have saved us many times.

¹³With your mighty strength you divided the sea

and smashed the heads of the sea monsters;

¹⁴you crushed the heads of the monster Leviathan

and fed his body to desert animals.

¹⁵You made springs and fountains flow;

you dried up large rivers.

¹⁶You created the day and the night;

you set the sun and the moon in their places;

¹⁷you set the limits of the earth;

you made summer and winter.

¹⁸But remember, O LORD, that your enemies laugh at you,

that they are godless and despise you.

¹⁹Don't abandon your helpless people to their cruel enemies;

don't forget your persecuted people!

²⁰Remember the covenant you made with us.

There is violence in every dark corner of the land.

²¹Don't let the oppressed be put to shame;

let those poor and needy people praise you.

²²Rouse yourself, God, and defend your cause!

Remember that godless people laugh at you all day long.

²³Don't forget the angry shouts of your enemies,

the continuous noise made by your foes.

This reading is from The Holy Bible, Today's English Version, Second Edition copyright © American Bible Society, 1992;
Old Testament copyright © American Bible Society, 1976, 1992; New Testament © American Bible Society, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1992.

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