Maschil of Asaph.
O God, why
hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine
anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
02 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.
03 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual
desolations; even all that the enemy hath done
wickedly in the sanctuary.
04 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy
congregations; they set up their ensigns for
signs.
05 A man was famous according as he had lifted up
axes upon the thick trees.
06 But now they break down the carved work
thereof at once with axes and hammers.
07 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they
have defiled by casting down the dwelling place
of thy name to the ground.
08 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them
together: they have burned up all the synagogues
of God in the land.
09 We see not our signs: there is no more any
prophet: neither is there among us any that
knoweth how long.
10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach?
shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
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.
13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength:
thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the
waters.
14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces,
and gavest him to be meat to the people
inhabiting the wilderness.
15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood:
thou driedst up mighty rivers.
16 The day is thine, the night also is thine:
thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth:
thou hast made summer and winter.
18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached,
O Lord, and that the foolish people have
blasphemed thy name.
19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto
the multitude of the wicked: forget not the
congregation of thy poor for ever.
20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark
places of the earth are full of the habitations
of cruelty.
21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let
the poor and needy praise thy name.
22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember
how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the
tumult of those that rise up against thee
increaseth continually.
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