[1] O God, why have you cast us off for ever? why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
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[2] Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old; the rod of your inheritance, which you have redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein you have dwelled.
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[3] Lift up your feet to the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary.
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[4] Your enemies roar in the middle of your congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
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[5] A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes on the thick trees.
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[6] But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
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[7] They have cast fire into your sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of your name to the ground.
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[8] 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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[9] We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knows how long.
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[10] O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme your name for ever?
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[11] Why withdraw you your hand, even your right hand? pluck it out of your bosom.
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[12] For God is my King of old, working salvation in the middle of the earth.
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[13] You did divide the sea by your strength: you brake the heads of the dragons in the waters.
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[14] You brake the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gave him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
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[15] You did split the fountain and the flood: you dried up mighty rivers.
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[16] The day is yours, the night also is yours: you have prepared the light and the sun.
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[17] You have set all the borders of the earth: you have made summer and winter.
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[18] Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed your name.
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[19] O deliver not the soul of your turtledove to the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of your poor for ever.
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[20] Have respect to the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
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[21] O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise your name.
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[22] Arise, O God, plead your own cause: remember how the foolish man reproaches you daily.
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[23] Forget not the voice of your enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against you increases continually.
