| 1: O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine
anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? |
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| 2: Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old;
the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion,
wherein thou hast dwelt. |
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| 3:
Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that
the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. |
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| 4: Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set
up their ensigns for signs. |
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| 5: A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the
thick trees. |
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| 6: But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with
axes and hammers. |
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| 7: They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by
casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground. |
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| 8: They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they
have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land. |
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| 9: We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is
there among us any that knoweth how long. |
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| 10: O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy
blaspheme thy name for ever? |
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| 11: Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it
out of thy bosom. |
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| 12: For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of
the earth. |
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| 13: Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the
heads of the dragons in the waters. |
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| 14: Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him
to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness. |
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| 15: Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up
mighty rivers. |
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| 16: The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared
the light and the sun. |
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| 17: Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made
summer and winter. |
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| 18: Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and
that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. |
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| 19: O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude
of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever. |
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| 20: Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the
earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. |
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| 21: O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and
needy praise thy name. |
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| 22: Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish
man reproacheth thee daily. |
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| 23: Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those
that rise up against thee increaseth continually. |
