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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?
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.
Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.
Walk through the awful ruins of the city;
see how the enemy has destroyed your sanctuary.
see how the enemy has destroyed your sanctuary.
Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs [for] signs.
There your enemies shouted their victorious battle cries;
there they set up their battle standards.
there they set up their battle standards.
[A man] was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees;
They swung their axes
like woodcutters in a forest.
like woodcutters in a forest.
And now they break down its carved work altogether, with hatchets and hammers.
With axes and picks,
they smashed the carved paneling.
they smashed the carved paneling.
They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitation of thy name to the ground.
They burned your sanctuary to the ground.
They defiled the place that bears your name.
They defiled the place that bears 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.
Then they thought, “Let’s destroy everything!”
So they burned down all the places where God was worshiped.
So they burned down all the places where God was worshiped.
We see not our signs; there is no more any prophet, neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
We no longer see your miraculous signs.
All the prophets are gone,
and no one can tell us when it will end.
All the prophets are gone,
and no one can tell us when it will end.
How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy contemn thy name for ever?
How long, O God, will you allow our enemies to insult you?
Will you let them dishonor your name forever?
Will you let them dishonor your name forever?
Why withdrawest thou thy hand, and thy right hand? [pluck it] out of thy bosom: consume [them].
Why do you hold back your strong right hand?
Unleash your powerful fist and destroy them.
Unleash your powerful fist and destroy them.
But God is my king of old, accomplishing deliverances in the midst of the earth.
You, O God, are my king from ages past,
bringing salvation to the earth.
bringing salvation to the earth.
*Thou* didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst break the heads of the monsters on the waters:
You split the sea by your strength
and smashed the heads of the sea monsters.
and smashed the heads of the sea monsters.
*Thou* didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert.
*Thou* didst cleave fountain and torrent, *thou* driedst up ever-flowing rivers.
You caused the springs and streams to gush forth,
and you dried up rivers that never run dry.
and you dried up rivers that never run dry.
The day is thine, the night also is thine; *thou* hast prepared the moon and the sun:
*Thou* hast set all the borders of the earth; summer and winter -- *thou* didst form them.
You set the boundaries of the earth,
and you made both summer and winter.
and you made both summer and winter.
Remember this, that an enemy hath reproached Jehovah, and a foolish people have contemned thy name.
See how these enemies insult you, LORD.
A foolish nation has dishonored your name.
A foolish nation has dishonored your name.
Give not up the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the troop of thine afflicted for ever.
Don’t let these wild beasts destroy your turtledoves.
Don’t forget your suffering people forever.
Don’t forget your suffering people forever.
Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence.
Remember your covenant promises,
for the land is full of darkness and violence!
for the land is full of darkness and violence!
Oh let not the oppressed one return ashamed; let the afflicted and needy praise thy name.
Don’t let the downtrodden be humiliated again.
Instead, let the poor and needy praise your name.
Instead, 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, and defend your cause.
Remember how these fools insult you all day long.
Remember how these fools insult you all day long.