| 1 | {An instruction: of Asaph.} Why, O God, hast thou cast off for ever? [why] doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? |
| 2 | Remember thine assembly, which thou hast purchased of old, which thou hast redeemed [to be] the portion of thine inheritance, this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt. |
| 3 | Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed. |
| 4 | Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs [for] signs. |
| 5 | [A man] was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees; |
| 6 | And now they break down its carved work altogether, with hatchets and hammers. |
| 7 | They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitation of thy name to the ground. |
| 8 | They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all uGod's places of assembly in the land. |
| 9 | We see not our signs; there is no more any prophet, neither is there among us any that knoweth how long. |
| 10 | How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy contemn thy name for ever? |
| 11 | Why withdrawest thou thy hand, and thy right hand? [pluck it] out of thy bosom: consume [them]. |
| 12 | But God is my king of old, accomplishing deliverances in the midst of the earth. |
| 13 | *Thou* didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst break the heads of the monsters on the waters: |
| 14 | *Thou* didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert. |
| 15 | *Thou* didst cleave fountain and torrent, *thou* driedst up ever-flowing rivers. |
| 16 | The day is thine, the night also is thine; *thou* hast prepared the moon and the sun: |
| 17 | *Thou* hast set all the borders of the earth; summer and winter -- *thou* didst form them. |
| 18 | Remember this, that an enemy hath reproached Jehovah, and a foolish people have contemned thy name. |
| 19 | Give not up the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the troop of thine afflicted for ever. |
| 20 | Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence. |
| 21 | Oh let not the oppressed one return ashamed; let the afflicted and needy praise thy name. |
| 22 | Rise up, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day; |
| 23 | Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: the tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually. |
