ECB(i)
1 On Comprehension: By Asaph. O Elohim, why cast us off in perpetuity? why smoke your wrath against the flock of your pasture?
2 Remember the witness you chattelized of antiquity - the scion of your inheritance you redeemed - this mount Siyon wherein you tabernacle.
3 Lift your steps to the perpetual ruins; to all that the enemy vilified in the holies.
4 Your tribulators roar midst your congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs;
5 he is known for lifting axes on the thick trees:
6 and now they hammer the engravings with axes and sledge hammers;
7 they sent fire to your hallowed refuge; they profaned the tabernacle of your name to the earth.
8 They say in their hearts, Oppress them together! They burn all the congregations of El in the land.
9 We neither see our signs; nor is there any prophet; nor is there among us any who knows until when.
10 O Elohim, until when reproaches the tribulator? - the enemy scorn your name in perpetuity?
11 Why turn your hand back - even your right? Finish it from your bosom.
12 And Elohim is my Sovereign from antiquity - working salvation midst the earth.
13 You broke the sea by your strength; you broke the heads of the monsters in the waters:
14 you crushed the heads of leviathan and gave him for food to the people - the desertdwellers:
15 you split the fountain and the wadi; you dried up perennial rivers.
16 The day is yours, the night is yours; you prepared the light and the sun;
17 you stationed all the borders of the earth; you formed summer and winter.
18 Remember this: an enemy reproaches Yah Veh; and the foolish people scorn your name.
19 O give not the soul of your turtledove to the live beings; forget not the lives of your humble in perpetuity:
20 look to the covenant; for the darknesses of the earth are full of the folds of violence.
21 O that the oppressed not return shamed; that the humble and needy halal your name.
22 Rise, O Elohim, defend your own defence; remember your reproach of a fool all the day:
23 forget not the voice of your tribulators; the roaring of those who rise ascends continually.