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Ezra Chapter 74

1 O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger

2 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the

3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that

4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up

5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the

6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes

7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by

8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they

9 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is

10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy

11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out

12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the

13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the

14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to

15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up

16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared

17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made

18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that

19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of

20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth

21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy

22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish

23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that