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| [1]Maschil of Asaph. Why, O God, hast Thou cast us off for ever? Why doth Thine anger smoke against the flock of Thy pasture? |
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| [2]Remember Thy congregation, which Thou hast gotten of old, which Thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of Thine inheritance; and mount Zion, wherein Thou hast dwelt. |
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| [3]Lift up Thy steps because of the perpetual ruins, even all the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary. |
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| [4]Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of Thy meeting-place; they have set up their own signs for signs. |
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| [5]It seemed as when men wield upwards axes in a thicket of trees. |
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| [6]And now all the carved work thereof together they strike down with hatchet and hammers. |
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| [7]They have set Thy sanctuary on fire; they have profaned the dwelling-place of Thy name even to the ground. |
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| [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. |
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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]How long, O God, 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? Draw it out of Thy bosom and consume them. |
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| [12]Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. |
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| [13]Thou didst break the sea in pieces by Thy strength; Thou didst shatter the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters. |
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| [14]Thou didst crush the heads of leviathan, Thou gavest him to be food to the folk inhabiting the wilderness. |
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| [15]Thou didst cleave fountain and brook; Thou driedst up ever-flowing rivers. |
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| [16]Thine is the day, Thine also the night; Thou hast establish luminary and 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, how the enemy hath reproached 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇, and how a base people have blasphemed Thy name. |
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| [19]O deliver not the soul of Thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the life of Thy poor for ever. |
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| [20]Look upon the covenant; for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence. |
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| [21]O let not the oppressed turn back in confusion; let the poor and needy praise Thy name. |
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| [22]Arise, O God, plead Thine own cause; remember Thy reproach all the day at the hand of the base man. |
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| [23]Forget not the voice of Thine adversaries, the tumult of those that rise up against Thee which ascendeth continually. |
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