¹ O God, why have thou cast off forever? Why does thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

² Remember thy congregation, which thou have gotten of old, which thou have redeemed to be the tribe of thine inheritance, and mount Zion, at which thou have dwelt.

³ Lift up thy feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.

⁴ Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine assembly. They have set up their ensigns for signs.

⁵ They seemed as men who lifted up axes upon a thicket of trees.

⁶ And now they break down all the carved work of it with hatchet and hammers.

⁷ They have set thy sanctuary on fire. They have profaned the dwelling-place of thy name to the ground.

⁸ They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether. They have burned up all the meeting-places of God in the land.

⁹ We do not see our signs. There is no more any prophet, nor is there among us he who knows how long.

¹⁰ How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name forever?

¹¹ Why do thou draw back thy hand, even thy right hand? Remove it from the midst of thy bosom.

¹² Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

¹³ Thou divided the sea by thy strength. Thou break the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.

¹⁴ Thou break the heads of leviathan in pieces. Thou gave him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

¹⁵ Thou split fountain and flood. Thou dried up mighty rivers.

¹⁶ The day is thine; the night is also thine. Thou have prepared the light and the sun.

¹⁷ Thou have set all the borders of the earth. Thou have made summer and winter.

¹⁸ Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O Jehovah, and that a foolish people has blasphemed thy name.

¹⁹ O deliver not the soul of thy turtle-dove to the wild beast. Forget not the life of thy poor forever.

²⁰ Have respect to the covenant, for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.

²¹ O let not he who is oppressed return ashamed. Let a poor and needy man praise thy name.

²² Arise, O God, plead thine own cause. Remember how the foolish man reproaches thee all the day.

²³ Forget not the voice of thine adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against thee ascends continually.