¹ O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
² 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.
³ Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
⁴ Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
⁵ A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
⁶ But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
⁷ They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
⁸ They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God 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 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.
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.