Good News Translation GNT
World English Bible WEB
1 Why have you abandoned us like this, O God? Will you be angry with your own people forever?
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<<A contemplation by Asaph.>> God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
2 Remember your people, whom you chose for yourself long ago, whom you brought out of slavery to be your own tribe. Remember Mount Zion, where once you lived.
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Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, Which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; Mount Zion, in which you have lived.
3 Walk over these total ruins; our enemies have destroyed everything in the Temple.
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Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, All the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
4 Your enemies have shouted in triumph in your Temple; they have placed their flags there as signs of victory.
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Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.
5 They looked like woodsmen cutting down trees with their axes.
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They behaved like men wielding axes, Cutting through a thicket of trees.
6 They smashed all the wooden panels with their axes and sledge hammers.
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Now all its carved work They break down with hatchet and hammers.
7 They wrecked your Temple and set it on fire; they desecrated the place where you are worshiped.
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They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling-place of your Name.
8 They wanted to crush us completely; they burned down every holy place in the land.
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They said in their heart, "We will crush them completely." They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
9 All our sacred symbols are gone; there are no prophets left, and no one knows how long this will last.
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We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, Neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
10 How long, O God, will our enemies laugh at you? Will they insult your name forever?
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How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
11 Why have you refused to help us? Why do you keep your hands behind you?
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Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it out of your pocket and consume them!
12 But you have been our king from the beginning, O God; you have saved us many times.
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Yet God is my King of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth.
13 With your mighty strength you divided the sea and smashed the heads of the sea monsters;
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You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
14 you crushed the heads of the monster Leviathan and fed his body to desert animals.
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You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.
15 You made springs and fountains flow; you dried up large rivers.
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You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.
16 You created the day and the night; you set the sun and the moon in their places;
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The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.
17 you set the limits of the earth; you made summer and winter.
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You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.
18 But remember, O Lord, that your enemies laugh at you, that they are godless and despise you.
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Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
19 Don't abandon your helpless people to their cruel enemies; don't forget your persecuted people!
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Don't deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don't forget the life of your poor forever.
20 Remember the covenant you made with us. There is violence in every dark corner of the land.
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Honor your covenant, For haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
21 Don't let the oppressed be put to shame; let those poor and needy people praise you.
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Don't let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.
22 Rouse yourself, God, and defend your cause! Remember that godless people laugh at you all day long.
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Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
23 Don't forget the angry shouts of your enemies, the continuous noise made by your foes.
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Don't forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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