Psalms

The Psalter is Israel’s hymnbook: lament, praise, thanksgiving, royal psalms, and wisdom. It trains the heart to speak to God in trouble and in joy, and it points ahead to the Messiah.

Author: David and others
Date: c. 1400–400 BC
Theme: Prayers and songs for every season of the life of faith.
Key verses: Psalm 23; Psalm 51; Psalm 119:105
Clementine Vulgate

Psalms 74

1In finem, ne corrumpas. Psalmus cantici Asaph. 2[Confitebimur tibi, Deus, confitebimur, et invocabimus nomen tuum; narrabimus mirabilia tua. 3Cum accepero tempus, ego justitias judicabo. 4Liquefacta est terra et omnes qui habitant in ea: ego confirmavi columnas ejus. 5Dixi iniquis: Nolite inique agere: et delinquentibus: Nolite exaltare cornu: 6nolite extollere in altum cornu vestrum; nolite loqui adversus Deum iniquitatem. 7Quia neque ab oriente, neque ab occidente, neque a desertis montibus: 8quoniam Deus judex est. Hunc humiliat, et hunc exaltat: 9quia calix in manu Domini vini meri, plenus misto. Et inclinavit ex hoc in hoc; verumtamen fx ejus non est exinanita: bibent omnes peccatores terr. 10Ego autem annuntiabo in sculum; cantabo Deo Jacob: 11et omnia cornua peccatorum confringam, et exaltabuntur cornua justi.]

Clementine Vulgate (1592). Public domain or openly licensed historic text.