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1 (73-1) <Understanding for Asaph.> O God, why hast thou cast us off unto the end: why is thy wrath enkindled against the sheep of thy pasture?
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O God, why do you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
2 (73-2) Remember thy congregation, which thou hast possessed from the beginning. The sceptre of thy inheritance which thou hast redeemed: mount Sion in which thou hast dwelt.
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Remember your congregation, which you acquired long ago, which you redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage. Remember Mount Zion, where you came to dwell.
3 (73-3) Lift up thy hands against their pride unto the end; see what things the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
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Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary.
4 (73-4) And they that hate thee have made their boasts, in the midst of thy solemnity. They have set up their ensigns for signs,
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Your foes have roared within your holy place; they set up their emblems there.
5 (73-5) And they knew not both in the going out and on the highest top. As with axes in a wood of trees,
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At the upper entrance they hacked the wooden trellis with axes.
6 (73-6) They have cut down at once the gates thereof, with axe and hatchet they have brought it down.
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And then, with hatchets and hammers, they smashed all its carved work.
7 (73-7) They have set fire to thy sanctuary: they have defiled the dwelling place of thy name on the earth.
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They set your sanctuary on fire; they desecrated the dwelling place of your name, bringing it to the ground.
8 (73-8) They said in their heart, the whole kindred of them together: Let us abolish all the festival days of God from the land.
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They said to themselves, "We will utterly subdue them"; they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
9 (73-9) Our signs we have not seen, there is now no prophet: and he will know us no more.
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We do not see our emblems; there is no longer any prophet, and there is no one among us who knows how long.
10 (73-10) How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach: is the adversary to provoke thy name for ever?
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How long, O God, is the foe to scoff? Is the enemy to revile your name forever?
11 (73-11) Why dost thou turn away thy hand: and thy right hand out of the midst of thy bosom for ever?
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Why do you hold back your hand; why do you keep your hand in your bosom?
12 (73-12) But God is our king before ages: he hath wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.
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Yet God my King is from of old, working salvation in the earth.
13 (73-13) Thou by thy strength didst make the sea firm: thou didst crush the heads of the dragons in the waters.
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You divided the sea by your might; you broke the heads of the dragons in the waters.
14 (73-14) Thou hast broken the heads of the dragon: thou hast given him to be meat for the people of the Ethiopians.
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You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
15 (73-15) Thou hast broken up the fountains and the torrents: thou hast dried up the Ethan rivers.
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You cut openings for springs and torrents; you dried up ever-flowing streams.
16 (73-16) Thine is the day, and thine is the night: thou hast made the morning light and the sun.
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Yours is the day, yours also the night; you established the luminaries and the sun.
17 (73-17) Thou hast made all the borders of the earth: the summer and the spring were formed by thee.
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You have fixed all the bounds of the earth; you made summer and winter.
18 (73-18) Remember this, the enemy hath reproached the Lord: and a foolish people hath provoked thy name.
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Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy scoffs, and an impious people reviles your name.
19 (73-19) Deliver not up to beasts the souls that confess to thee: and forget not to the end the souls of thy poor.
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Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild animals; do not forget the life of your poor forever.
20 (73-20) Have regard to thy covenant: for they that are the obscure of the earth have been filled with dwellings of iniquity.
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Have regard for your covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of the haunts of violence.
21 (73-21) Let not the humble be turned away with confusion: the poor and needy shall praise thy name.
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Do not let the downtrodden be put to shame; let the poor and needy praise your name.
22 (73-22) Arise, O God, judge thy own cause: remember thy reproaches with which the foolish man hath reproached thee all the day.
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Rise up, O God, plead your cause; remember how the impious scoff at you all day long.
23 (73-23) Forget not the voices of thy enemies: the pride of them that hate thee ascendeth continually.
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Do not forget the clamor of your foes, the uproar of your adversaries that goes up continually.
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