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O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine angersmoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
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Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed ; this mountZion, wherein thou hast dwelt .
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Lift up thy feet unto the perpetualdesolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
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Thine enemiesroar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
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A man was famous according as he had lifted up*axes upon the thicktrees.
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But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
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They have castfire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
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They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
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We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
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O God, how long shall the adversaryreproach ? shall the enemyblaspheme thy name for ever?
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Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand?pluck it out of thy bosom* .
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For God is my King of old,workingsalvation in the midst of the earth.
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Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
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Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
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Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst upmightyrivers.
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The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
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Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast madesummer and winter.
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Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached , O LORD, and that the foolishpeople have blasphemed thy name.
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O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
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Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
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O let not the oppressedreturnashamed : let the poor and needypraise thy name.
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Arise , O God,plead thine own cause:remember how the foolish manreproacheth thee daily.
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Forget not the voice of thine enemies : the tumult of those that rise up against thee increasethcontinually.