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74 Why God, have you rejected us forever?
Why are you so angry at the sheep in your pasture?
2 Remember your congregation that you aquired in times past,
which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance.
This Mt. Tsiyyon (Zion), where you’ve lived.
3 Take your feet to see the perpetual ruins.
All the damage that the enemy has done to the sanctuary.
4 Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your meeting place.
They’ve set up their banners as signs.
5 They acted like men chopping down a forest with axes.
6 And now, with axe and hammers,
they smash up all its carved panels.
7 They have burnt your sanctuary to the ground.
They have profaned the place where your name is attached.
8 They said in their hearts, “We’ll totally crush them.”
They’ve burnt all of the meeting places of God in the country.
9 There aren’t any signs for us to watch.
There’s no longer any prophet,
≈and there’s no one among us who knows how long this will last.
10 How much longer, God, will the enemy be able to mock for?
≈Will the enemy be able to treat your name with contempt forever?
11 Why do you withdraw your hand of power?
Take it out of your pocket and destroy them.
12 Yet God is my king from times past,
rescuing us in a range of locations.
13 You divided the sea by your strength.
≈You smashed the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
14 You crushed the sea dragon’s heads.[ref]
You fed him to those living in the wilderness.
15 You broke open springs and streams.
You dried up flowing rivers.
16 The day is yours, and the night is also yours.
You set the sun and moon in place.
17 You have set all the borders of the earth.
You have made summer and winter.
18 Call to mind how the enemy hurled insults at you, Yahweh,
and that a foolish nation has belittled your name.
19 Don’t just allow a wild animal to take your dove’s life.
Don’t forget the life of your oppressed people forever.
20 Remember your promises as part of our agreement,
because the dark regions of the country are full of places of violence.
21 Don’t let the oppressed be turned back in shame.
Let the poor and oppressed have good reason to praise you.
22 Take action, God; defend your own honour.
Take notice of how fools insult you all day long.
23 Don’t forget the voice of your enemies
or the uproar of those who continually defy you.
74:0 In Hebrew, ‘maskil’, is perhaps the name of this class of song.
Job 41:1-34:
41 Can you pull the sea dragon with a hook,[ref]
≈or tie his tongue down with a rope?
2 Can you put a leash into its nose,
≈or pierce its jaw with a harpoon?
3 Will it beg you over and over for mercy?
≈Maybe if it says tender things to you?
4 Will it make an agreement with you?
≈Might you take it as a slave for the rest of its life?
5 Will you play with it like with a pet,
≈and tie it on a leash for your girls?
6 Will your team set a price on the whole creature?
≈Will they divide it up among the merchants?
7 Can you fill its hide with harpoons,
≈or its head with fishing spears?
8 Put your hand on it and you’ll remember the battle—
don’t do it!
9 What hope would you have against it?
Aren’t you put off just from looking at it?
10 No one’s fierce enough to wake it up,
so how might you expect to stand up to me?
11 Who has confronted me with any claim that I should repay?
Everything under the sky belongs to me.
12 I won’t keep quiet about its limbs,
or about its strength and the beauty of its form.
13 Who can remove its armour plating at the front,
or penetrate beyond its chestplate?
14 Who can open its jaws,
when there’s terror all around its teeth?
15 Rows of scales are its pride,
fitting into each other with a tight seal.
16 Each one is very close to the next,
and no air can get between them.
17 The lock tightly to their next door neighbour.
≈They cling together and can’t be separated.
18 Its snorting causes flashes of light,
≈and its eyes are like the early rays of dawn.
19 Flames come from its mouth.
≈Sparks of fire leap out.
20 Smoke pours from its nostrils,
like a boiling pot with a hollow reed poking out from under the lid.
21 Its breath sets coals on fire,
≈and a flame comes out of its mouth.
22 There’s incredible strength in its neck,
and fear always goes ahead of it.
23 The folds of his body are joined tightly together—
so firm that they can’t be moved.
24 His chest is hard like stone—
yes, as solid as the bottom mill-stone.
25 When it rises up, even mighty men are afraid.
≈They retreat if they see it thrashing around.
26 Striking it with a sword would have no effect,
nor would a spear, arrow, or dart.
27 Iron is like straw to the sea dragon,
≈and bronze like rotten wood.
28 Nothing shot with a bow can make it turn away—
For it, stones from a sling are like bits of straw.
29 Heavy clubs are just like a grain stalk,
and it laughs at the rattling of a spear.
30 Its underbelly is sharp like broken pottery.
It tears up the mud like a sledge for threshing grain.
31 It makes the deep ocean boil like a pot.
It makes the sea swirl like a jar of ointment.
32 It leaves a glistening wake behind it—
you’d think that the deep water had white hair.
33 There’s no equal to it on the earth—
the creature that was made to have no fear.
34 It looks down on all those who think they’re powerful.
≈It’s the king of all those who’re proud.