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| 1 [[An Instructive Psalm. Asaph's.]] Wherefore, O God, hast thou cast off utterly? Shall thine anger smoke against the flock of thine own pasturing? |
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| 2 Remember thine own assembly thou didst acquire aforetime, Thou didst redeem the tribe of thine own inheritance, Mount Zion, wherein thou didst take up thy habitation. |
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| 3 Lift up thy steps unto the places utterly unsafe, All the mischief!–the foe in the sanctuary! |
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| 4 Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine appointed meeting, They have set their ensigns as tokens! |
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| 5 One used to be known according as he carried up high–into the thicket of trees–the axes; |
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| 6 But, now, the doors thereof all together, with axes and hammers, they batter down. |
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| 7 They have cast, into the fire, thy sanctuary, To the ground, have they profaned the habitation of thy Name. |
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| 8 They have said in their heart, Let us suppress them altogether, They have burned up all the meeting-places of GOD in the land. |
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| 9 Our own signs, have we not seen,–There is no longer a prophet,–Neither is there with us, one who knoweth–How long! |
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| 10 How long, O God, shall the adversary, reproach? Shall the enemy revile thy Name perpetually? |
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| 11 Wherefore shouldst thou withdraw thy hand–thy right hand? [Bring it] out of the midst of thy bosom! [Selah.] |
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| 12 But, God, hath been my king from aforetime, Working Deliverances in the midst of the earth. |
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| 13 Thou, didst cleave asunder, in thy might, the sea, Thou didst break in pieces the heads of the Crocodiles, [till they floated] on the waters; |
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| 14 Thou, didst crush the heads of the Sea-Monster, Thou didst give him to be food, for the people of the deserts; |
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| 15 Thou, didst cleave open fountain and torrent, Thou, didst dry up rivers of steady flow: |
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| 16 Thine, is the day, Yea, thine, the night, Thou, didst establish moon and sun; |
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| 17 Thou, didst set up all the bounds of the earth, As for summer and winter, thou, didst form them! |
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| 18 Remember this, An enemy, hath reproached Yahweh, Yea, an impious people, have reviled thy Name. |
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| 19 Do not deliver up, to a wild beast, the life of thy turtle-dove, The living host of thine oppressed ones, do not forget perpetually. |
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| 20 Have respect to thy covenant, For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence. |
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| 21 May the crushed one not again be confounded, As for the oppressed and the needy, let them praise thy Name. |
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| 22 Arise! O God, plead thine own cause, Remember the reproach of thee, from the impious one, all the day: |
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| 23 Do not forget the voice of thine adversaries, The noise of thine assailants, ascending continually. |
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