Welcome to our website where we explore the Bible! Pleasure to meet you here!
May your journey into the world of the Holy Scriptures be engaging and inspiring!
You can change reading language: uk ru
Parallel
Darby Bible Translation
English Standard Version
Why Have You Rejected Us Forever?
{An instruction: of Asaph.} Why, O God, hast thou cast off for ever? [why] doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
{An instruction: of Asaph.} Why, O God, hast thou cast off for ever? [why] doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
Remember thine assembly, which thou hast purchased of old, which thou hast redeemed [to be] the portion of thine inheritance, this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old,
which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage!
Remember Mount Zion, where you have dwelt.
which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage!
Remember Mount Zion, where you have dwelt.
Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.
Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins;
the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!
the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!
Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs [for] signs.
Your foes have roared in the midst of your meeting place;
they set up their own signs for signs.
they set up their own signs for signs.
[A man] was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees;
And now they break down its carved work altogether, with hatchets and hammers.
And all its carved wood
they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitation of thy name to the ground.
They set your sanctuary on fire;
they profaned the dwelling place of your name,
bringing it down to the ground.
they profaned the dwelling place of your name,
bringing it down to the ground.
They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all God's places of assembly in the land.
They said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”;
they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
We see not our signs; there is no more any prophet, neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
We do not see our signs;
there is no longer any prophet,
and there is none among us who knows how long.
there is no longer any prophet,
and there is none among us who knows how long.
How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy contemn thy name for ever?
How long, O God, is the foe to scoff?
Is the enemy to revile your name forever?
Is the enemy to revile your name forever?
Why withdrawest thou thy hand, and thy right hand? [pluck it] out of thy bosom: consume [them].
But God is my king of old, accomplishing deliverances in the midst of the earth.
Yet God my King is from of old,
working salvation in the midst of the earth.
working salvation in the midst of the earth.
*Thou* didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst break the heads of the monsters on the waters:
*Thou* didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert.
You crushed the heads of Leviathan;
you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
*Thou* didst cleave fountain and torrent, *thou* driedst up ever-flowing rivers.
You split open springs and brooks;
you dried up ever-flowing streams.
you dried up ever-flowing streams.
The day is thine, the night also is thine; *thou* hast prepared the moon and the sun:
Yours is the day, yours also the night;
you have established the heavenly lights and the sun.
you have established the heavenly lights and the sun.
*Thou* hast set all the borders of the earth; summer and winter -- *thou* didst form them.
You have fixed all the boundaries of the earth;
you have made summer and winter.
you have made summer and winter.
Remember this, that an enemy hath reproached Jehovah, and a foolish people have contemned thy name.
Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy scoffs,
and a foolish people reviles your name.
and a foolish people reviles your name.
Give not up the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the troop of thine afflicted for ever.
Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild beasts;
do not forget the life of your poor forever.
do not forget the life of your poor forever.
Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence.
Have regard for the covenant,
for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
Oh let not the oppressed one return ashamed; let the afflicted and needy praise thy name.
Let not the downtrodden turn back in shame;
let the poor and needy praise your name.
let the poor and needy praise your name.
Rise up, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day;
Arise, O God, defend your cause;
remember how the foolish scoff at you all the day!
remember how the foolish scoff at you all the day!