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Why Have You Rejected Us Forever?
{Maschil of Asaph.} O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
{Maschil of Asaph.} O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; 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 feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins;
the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!
the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!
Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns 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 famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
And all its carved wood
they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place 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 hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God 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.
O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme 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, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.
For God is my King of old, working salvation 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 brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
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 the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty 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 light 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: thou hast made summer and winter.
You have fixed all the boundaries of the earth;
you have made summer and winter.
you have made summer and winter.
Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy scoffs,
and a foolish people reviles your name.
and a foolish people reviles your name.
O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor 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 habitations of cruelty.
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.
O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor 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.
Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
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!