MLV(i)
1 O God, why have you cast off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
2 Remember your congregation, which you bought them of long-ago, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance and Mount Zion, at which you have dwelt.
3 Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary. 4 Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. They have set up their ensigns for signs.
5 They seemed as men who lifted up axes upon a thicket of trees. 6 And now they break down all the carved work of it with hatchet and hammers.
7 They have set your sanctuary on fire. They have profaned the dwelling-place of your name to the ground. 8 They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether. They have burned up all the meeting-places of God in the land.
9 We do not see our signs. There is no more any prophet, nor any among us who knows how long. 10 How long, O God, will the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
11 Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Remove it from the midst of your bosom.
12 Yet God is my King of long-ago, working salvation in the midst of the earth. 13 You divided the sea by your strength.
You break the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters. 14 You break the heads of the leviathan in pieces. You gave him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness. 15 You split fountain and flood. You dried up mighty rivers.
16 The day is yours; the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun. 17 You have set all the borders of the earth. You have made summer and winter.
18 Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O Jehovah and that a foolish people has blasphemed your name.
19 O do not deliver the soul of your turtle-dove to the wild beast. Do not forget the life of your poor forever.
20 Have respect to the covenant, because the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.
21 O do not let he who is oppressed return ashamed. Let a poor and needy man praise your name.
22 Arise, O God, plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man reproaches you all the day.
23 Do not forget not the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.
2 Remember your congregation, which you bought them of long-ago, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance and Mount Zion, at which you have dwelt.
3 Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary. 4 Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. They have set up their ensigns for signs.
5 They seemed as men who lifted up axes upon a thicket of trees. 6 And now they break down all the carved work of it with hatchet and hammers.
7 They have set your sanctuary on fire. They have profaned the dwelling-place of your name to the ground. 8 They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether. They have burned up all the meeting-places of God in the land.
9 We do not see our signs. There is no more any prophet, nor any among us who knows how long. 10 How long, O God, will the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
11 Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Remove it from the midst of your bosom.
12 Yet God is my King of long-ago, working salvation in the midst of the earth. 13 You divided the sea by your strength.
You break the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters. 14 You break the heads of the leviathan in pieces. You gave him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness. 15 You split fountain and flood. You dried up mighty rivers.
16 The day is yours; the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun. 17 You have set all the borders of the earth. You have made summer and winter.
18 Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O Jehovah and that a foolish people has blasphemed your name.
19 O do not deliver the soul of your turtle-dove to the wild beast. Do not forget the life of your poor forever.
20 Have respect to the covenant, because the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.
21 O do not let he who is oppressed return ashamed. Let a poor and needy man praise your name.
22 Arise, O God, plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man reproaches you all the day.
23 Do not forget not the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.