Psalms 74:5-18
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5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
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6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
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7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
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8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
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9 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
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10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
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11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.
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12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
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13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
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14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
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15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
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16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
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17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
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18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.