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
1An instruction: of Asaph. Why, OGod, hast thou cast off for ever? [why] doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?+ 2Remember thine assembly, which thou hast purchased of old, which thou hast redeemed [to be] the portion of thine inheritance, this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.+ 3Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.+ 4Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs [for] signs.+ 5[A man] was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees;+ 6And now they break down its carved work altogether, with hatchets and hammers.+ 7They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitation of thy name to the ground.+ 8They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up allGod's places of assembly in the land.+ 9We see not our signs; there is no more any prophet, neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.+ 10How long, OGod, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy contemn thy name for ever?+ 11Why withdrawest thou thy hand, and thy right hand? [pluck it] out of thy bosom: consume [them].+ 12ButGod is my king of old, accomplishing deliverances in the midst of the earth.+ 13Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst break the heads of the monsters on the waters:+ 14Thou didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert.+ 15Thou didst cleave fountain and torrent, thou driedst up ever-flowing rivers.+ 16The day is thine, the night also is thine; thou hast prepared the moon and the sun:+ 17Thou hast set all the borders of the earth; summer and winter — thou didst form them.+ 18Remember this, that an enemy hath reproached Jehovah, and a foolish people have contemned thy name.+ 19Give not up the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the troop of thine afflicted for ever.+ 20Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence.+ 21Oh let not the oppressed one return ashamed; let the afflicted and needy praise thy name.+ 22Rise up, OGod, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day;+ 23Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: the tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually.+