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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?
O God, why have You rejected us forever?
Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?
Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your 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 inheritance;
And this Mount Zion, where You have dwelt.
Which You have redeemed to be the tribe of Your inheritance;
And this Mount Zion, where You have dwelt.
Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.
Turn Your footsteps toward the perpetual ruins;
The enemy has damaged everything within the sanctuary.
The enemy has damaged everything within the sanctuary.
Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs [for] signs.
Your adversaries have roared in the midst of Your meeting place;
They have set up their own standards for signs.
They have set up their own standards for signs.
[A man] was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees;
It seems as if one had lifted up
His axe in a forest of trees.
His axe in a forest of trees.
And now they break down its carved work altogether, with hatchets and hammers.
And now all its carved work
They smash with hatchet and hammers.
They smash with hatchet and hammers.
They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitation of thy name to the ground.
They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground;
They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name.
They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name.
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 in their heart, “Let us completely subdue them.”
They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
They have 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,
Nor is there any among us who knows how long.
There is no longer any prophet,
Nor is there any 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, will the adversary revile,
And the enemy spurn Your name forever?
And the enemy spurn Your name forever?
Why withdrawest thou thy hand, and thy right hand? [pluck it] out of thy bosom: consume [them].
Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand?
From within Your bosom, destroy them!
From within Your bosom, destroy them!
But God is my king of old, accomplishing deliverances in the midst of the earth.
Yet God is my king from of old,
Who works deeds of deliverance in the midst of the earth.
Who works deeds of deliverance 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:
You divided the sea by Your strength;
You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
You broke the heads of the sea monsters in 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 broke open springs and torrents;
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 is the night;
You have prepared the light and the sun.
You have prepared the light and the sun.
*Thou* hast set all the borders of the earth; summer and winter -- *thou* didst form them.
You have established 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, that the enemy has reviled,
And a foolish people has spurned Your name.
And a foolish people has spurned 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 turtledove to the wild beast;
Do not forget the life of Your afflicted forever.
Do not forget the life of Your afflicted forever.
Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence.
Consider 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 oppressed return dishonored;
Let the afflicted and needy praise Your name.
Let the afflicted 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, and plead Your own cause;
Remember how the foolish man reproaches You all day long.
Remember how the foolish man reproaches You all day long.