- 1. <A contemplation by Asaph.><br>
God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture? - 2. Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; Mount Zion, in which you have lived.
- 3. Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
- 4. Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.
- 5. They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.
- 6. Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.
- 7. They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
- 8. They said in their heart, "We will crush them completely." They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
- 9. We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
- 10. How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
- 11. Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it out of your pocket and consume them!
- 12. Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
- 13. You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
- 14. You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.
- 15. You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.
- 16. The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.
- 17. You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.
- 18. Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
- 19. Don't deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don't forget the life of your poor forever.
- 20. Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
- 21. Don't let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.
- 22. Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
- 23. Don't forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.
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