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1 A maskil of Asaf: Why have you rejected us forever, God, with your anger smoking against the sheep you once pastured?
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O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
2 Remember your community, which you acquired long ago, the tribe you redeemed to be your very own. Remember Mount Tziyon, where you came to live.
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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 Hurry your steps to these endless ruins, to the sanctuary devastated by the enemy.
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Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
4 The roar of your foes filled your meeting-place; they raised their own banners as a sign of their conquest.
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Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
5 The place seemed like a thicket of trees when lumbermen hack away with their axes.
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A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
6 With hatchet and hammer they banged away, smashing all the carved woodwork.
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But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
7 They set your sanctuary on fire, tore down and profaned the abode of your name.
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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 to themselves, "We will oppress them completely."They have burned down all God's meeting-places in the land.
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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.
9 We see no signs, there is no prophet any more; none of us knows how long it will last.
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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.
10 How much longer, God, will the foe jeer at us? Will the enemy insult your name forever?
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O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
11 Why do you hold back your hand? Draw your right hand from your coat, and finish them off!
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Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.
12 God has been my king from earliest times, acting to save throughout all the earth.
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For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
13 By your strength you split the sea in two, in the water you smashed sea monsters' heads,
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Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
14 you crushed the heads of Livyatan and gave it as food to the creatures of the desert.
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Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
15 You cut channels for springs and streams, you dried up rivers that had never failed.
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Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
16 The day is yours, and the night is yours; it was you who established light and sun.
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The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
17 It was you who fixed all the limits of the earth, you made summer and winter.
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Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
18 Remember how the enemy scoffs at ADONAI, how a brutish people insults your name.
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Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
19 Don't hand over the soul of your dove to wild beasts, don't forget forever the life of your poor.
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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.
20 Look to the covenant, for the land's dark places are full of the haunts of violence.
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Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
21 Don't let the oppressed retreat in confusion; let the poor and needy praise your name.
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O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
22 Arise, God, and defend your cause; remember how brutish men insult you all day.
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Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
23 Don't forget what your foes are saying, the ever-rising uproar of your adversaries.
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Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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