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Psalm_074 · Pastor John Piper's answers

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  Speaker 1: Psalm seventy four, a contemplation by Asaph, God, Why have
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  Speaker 1: you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against
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  Speaker 1: the sheep of your pasture? Remember your congregation, which you
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  Speaker 1: purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the
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  Speaker 1: tribe of your inheritance, Mount Zion, in which you have lived.
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  Speaker 1: Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins all the
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  Speaker 1: evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary. Your
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  Speaker 1: adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. They
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  Speaker 1: have set up their standards as signs. They behaved like
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  Speaker 1: men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees. Now
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  Speaker 1: all its carved work they break down with hatchet and hammers.
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  Speaker 1: They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have
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  Speaker 1: profaned the dwelling place of your name. They said in
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  Speaker 1: their hearts, we will crush them completely. They have burned
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  Speaker 1: up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
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  Speaker 1: We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any profit.
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  Speaker 1: Neither is there among us any one who knows how
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  Speaker 1: long how long God shall the adversary reproach? Shall the
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  Speaker 1: enemy blaspheme your name forever? Why do you draw back
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  Speaker 1: your hand, even your right hand, take it out of
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  Speaker 1: your pocket and consume them. Yet, God is my king
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  Speaker 1: of old working salvation. In the midst of the earth,
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  Speaker 1: you divided the sea by your strength. You broke the
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  Speaker 1: heads of the sea monsters. In the waters, you broke
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  Speaker 1: the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as
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  Speaker 1: food to people and desert creatures. You opened up spring
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  Speaker 1: and stream, You dried up mighty rivers. The day is yours,
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  Speaker 1: The night is also yours. You have prepared the light
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  Speaker 1: and the sun. You have set all the boundaries of
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  Speaker 1: the earth. You have made summer and winter. Remember this
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  Speaker 1: that the enemy has mocked you. Yahweh. Foolish people have
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  Speaker 1: blasphemed your name. Don't deliver the soul of your dove
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  Speaker 1: to wild beast. Don't forget the life of your poor forever.
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  Speaker 1: Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark
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  Speaker 1: places of the earth. Don't let the oppressed return ashamed.
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  Speaker 1: Let the poor and needy praise your name. Arise God,
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  Speaker 1: please your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks
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  Speaker 1: you all day. Don't forget the voice of your adversaries,
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  Speaker 1: the tumult of those who rise up against you, ascends continually,