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Psalm_074 · Pastor John Piper's answers

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  Speaker 1: Psalm 74 A Contemplation by Asaph God, why have you
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  Speaker 1: rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the
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  Speaker 1: sheep of your pasture? Remember your congregation which you purchased
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  Speaker 1: of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe
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  Speaker 1: 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 heart, We will crush them completely. They have burned
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  Speaker 1: up all the places in the land where God was worshipped.
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  Speaker 1: We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet.
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  Speaker 1: Neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
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  Speaker 1: How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy
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  Speaker 1: blaspheme your name forever? Why do you draw back your hand,
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  Speaker 1: even your right hand? Take it out of your pocket
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  Speaker 1: and consume them. YET GOD IS MY KING OF OLD,
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  Speaker 1: WORKING SALVATION IN THE MIDST OF THE EARTH. YOU DIVIDED
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  Speaker 1: THE SEA BY YOUR STRENGTH. YOU BROKE THE HEADS OF
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  Speaker 1: THE SEA MONSTERS IN THE WATERS. YOU BROKE THE HEADS
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  Speaker 1: OF LEVIATHAN IN PIECES. YOU GAVE HIM AS FOOD TO
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  Speaker 1: PEOPLE AND DESERT CREATURES. YOU OPENED UP SPRING AND STREAM.
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  Speaker 1: YOU DRIED UP MIGHTY RIVERS. THE DAY IS YOURS. THE
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  Speaker 1: NIGHT IS ALSO YOURS. YOU HAVE PREPARED THE LIGHT AND
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  Speaker 1: THE SUN. You have set all the boundaries of the earth.
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  Speaker 1: You have made summer and winter. Remember this, that the
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  Speaker 1: enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
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  Speaker 1: Don't deliver the soul of your dove to wild beast.
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  Speaker 1: Don't forget the life of your poor forever. Honor your covenant,
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  Speaker 1: for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and
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  Speaker 1: needy praise your name. Arise, God. Plead your own cause.
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  Speaker 1: Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day. Don't
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  Speaker 1: forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those
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  Speaker 1: who rise up against you ascends continually.