Psalm 74.A Prayer for National Deliverance.

Why have you abandoned us like this, O God?
Will you be angry with your own people forever?

2 Remember your people, whom you chose for yourself long ago,
whom you brought out of slavery to be your own tribe.
Remember Mount Zion, where once you lived.

3 Walk over these total ruins;
our enemies have destroyed everything in the Temple.

4 Your enemies have shouted in triumph in your Temple;
they have placed their flags there as signs of victory.

5 They looked like woodsmen
cutting down trees with their axes.

6 They smashed all the wooden panels
with their axes and sledge hammers.

7 They wrecked your Temple and set it on fire;
they desecrated the place where you are worshiped.

8 They wanted to crush us completely;
they burned down every holy place in the land.

9 All our…