¹ A Psalme to give instruction, committed to Asaph. O God, why hast thou put vs away for euer? why is thy wrath kindled against the sheepe of thy pasture?

² Thinke vpon thy Congregation, which thou hast possessed of olde, and on the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed, and on this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

³ Lift vp thy strokes, that thou mayest for euer destroy euery enemie that doeth euill to the Sanctuarie.

⁴ Thine aduersaries roare in the middes of thy Congregation, and set vp their banners for signes.

⁵ He that lifted the axes vpon the thicke trees, was renowmed, as one, that brought a thing to perfection:

⁶ But nowe they breake downe the carued worke thereof with axes and hammers.

⁷ They haue cast thy Sanctuarie into the fire, and rased it to the grounde, and haue defiled the dwelling place of thy Name.

⁸ They saide in their hearts, Let vs destroy them altogether: they haue burnt all the Synagogues of God in the land.

⁹ We see not our signes: there is not one Prophet more, nor any with vs that knoweth howe long.

¹⁰ O God, howe long shall the aduersarie reproche thee? shall the enemie blaspheme thy Name for euer?

¹¹ Why withdrawest thou thine hand, euen thy right hand? drawe it out of thy bosome, and consume them.

¹² Euen God is my King of olde, working saluation in the middes of the earth.

¹³ Thou didest deuide the sea by thy power: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

¹⁴ Thou brakest the head of Liuiathan in pieces, and gauest him to be meate for the people in wildernesse.

¹⁵ Thou brakest vp the fountaine and riuer: thou dryedst vp mightie riuers.

¹⁶ The day is thine, and the night is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sunne.

¹⁷ Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.

¹⁸ Remember this, that the enemie hath reproched the Lord, and the foolish people hath blasphemed thy Name.

¹⁹ Giue not the soule of thy turtle doue vnto the beast, and forget not the Congregation of thy poore for euer.

²⁰ Consider thy couenant: for the darke places of the earth are full of the habitations of the cruell.

²¹ Oh let not the oppressed returne ashamed, but let the poore and needie prayse thy Name.

²² Arise, O God: mainteine thine owne cause: remember thy dayly reproche by the foolish man.

²³ Forget not the voyce of thine enemies: for the tumult of them, that rise against thee, ascendeth continually.