A Maskil + 74:1 Maskil is probably a musical or liturgical term; used for Psalms 32, 42, 44–45, 52–55, 74, 78, 88–89, and 142. of Asaph.
Why Have You Rejected Us Forever?
Psalm 79:1–13; Jeremiah 52:1–11
1God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?+ 2Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; Mount Zion, in which you have lived.+ 3Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.+ 4Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.+ 5They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.+ 6Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.+ 7They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.+ 8They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.+ 9We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.+ 10How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?+ 11Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it from your chest and consume them!+ 12Yet God is my King of old, working salvation throughout the earth.+ 13You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.+ 14You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.+ 15You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.+ 16The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.+ 17You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.+ 18Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.+ 19Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.+ 20Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.+ 21Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.+ 22Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.+ 23Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.+