Psalms 74:9

our signs The outward and visible symbols of our religion, such as sabbath and festival, which God "had caused to be forgotten in Zion" (Lamentations 2:6). The sabbath is spoken of as a sign in Exodus 31:13; Exodus 31:17; Ezekiel 20:12; Ezekiel 20:20. The words would of course be specially appropriate to the time at which Antiochus attempted to suppress all the distinctive ordinances of the Jewish religion (1Ma 1:45-46; 1Ma 1:60-61). Note the contrast with the -signs" of hostile domination, Psalms 74:4.

there is no more any prophet A characteristic of the Maccabaean age (1Ma 4:46; 1Ma 9:27; 1Ma 14:41): but the complaints of the exile are not dissimilar (Lamentations 2:9; Ezekiel 7:26); and even after the Return the angel in Zechariah's vision (Zechariah 1:12) asks -How long?"