073:019 How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors. 073:020 As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies. 073:021 For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart. 073:022 I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you. 073:023 Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand. 073:024 You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. 073:025 Who do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth who I desire besides you. 073:026 My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. 073:027 For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you. 073:028 But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works. 074:001 <<A contemplation by Asaph.>> God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture? 074:002 Remember 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. 074:003 Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary. 074:004 Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs. 074:005 They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees. 074:006 Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers. 074:007 They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name. 074:008 They said in their heart, "We will crush them completely." They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped. 074:009 We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long. 074:010 How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever? 074:011 Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it out of your pocket and consume them! 074:012 Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. 074:013 You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters. 074:014 You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures. 074:015 You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers. 074:016 The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun. 074:017 You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter. 074:018 Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh.