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[1]Maschil of Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thy anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? |
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[2]Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old: the rod of thy inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, in which thou hast dwelt. |
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[3]Lift up thy feet to the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. |
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[4]Thy enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs. |
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[5]A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees. |
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[6]But now they break down the carved work of it at once with axes and hammers. |
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[7]They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling-place of thy 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 knoweth how long. |
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[10]O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever? |
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[11]Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom. |
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[12]For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. |
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[13]Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou didst break the heads of the dragons in the waters. |
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[14]Thou didst break the head of leviathan in pieces, and didst give him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness. |
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[15]Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou didst dry up mighty rivers. |
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[16]The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. |
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[17]Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter. |
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[18]Remember this, the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. |
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[19]O deliver not the soul of thy turtle dove to the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy 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 thy name. |
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[22]Arise, O God, plead thy own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily. |
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[23]Forget not the voice of thy enemies: the tumult of those that rise against thee increaseth continually. |