A maskil of Asaph
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📚✭✭✭O God, why have you cast us off forever?
Why does your anger smoke
against the sheep✭ of your pasture?
2 📚Remember your congregation which
you purchased of old,
the tribe of your inheritance which
you redeemed✭,
this mount Zion✭, where
you have dwelt.
3 📚✭Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins,
all that the enemy has destroyed in the
sanctuary.
4 📚Your enemies roared in your
meeting places;
they set up their banners as signs.
5 📚A man was famous for lifting up
axes on the thick trees.
6 📚But now they have broken down
its carved work all at once with
axes and hammers.
7 📚They have set your sanctuary
on fire,
they have defiled the dwelling place
of your name by casting it down
to the ground.
8 📚They said in their hearts,
“Let us destroy them altogether”.
They have burned up all the meeting
places of God in the land.
9 📚We do not see our signs.
No longer is there a prophet,
nor is there anyone among us
who knows how long.
10 📚O God, how long will the foe
taunt you?
Will the enemy blaspheme
your name forever?
11 📚✭Why do you withdraw your hand,
your right hand?
Take it out of your bosom
and destroy them✭!
12 📚✭For God is my King of old,
working salvation in the midst
of the earth.
13 📚You divided the sea by your strength.
You broke the heads of the monsters
in the waters.
14 📚You broke in pieces the heads of
leviathan and gave him
as food to
the people living in the desert.
15 📚You split open the fountain
and the flood.
You dried up mighty rivers.
16 📚The day is yours;
the night also is yours.
You prepared the light and the sun.
17 📚You set all the borders
of the earth.
You made summer and winter.
18 📚✭Remember that the enemy has
taunted you, O LORD,
and that the foolish people have
blasphemed your name.
19 📚O do not deliver the soul
of your dove to the horde
of the wicked.
Do not forget forever the
congregation of your poor.
20 📚Have regard for the covenant.
For the dark places of the earth are
full of the habitations of cruelty.
21 📚Oh, do not let the oppressed
return ashamed!
Let the poor and needy praise
your name.
22 📚Arise, O God, plead
your own cause!
Remember how the foolish man
scorns you daily.
23 📚Do not forget the voice of
your enemies.
The uproar of those who rise up
against you increases continually.