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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 Your congregation, which You have purchased of old,
The tribe of Your inheritance, which You have redeemed —
This Mount Zion where You have dwelt.
The tribe of Your inheritance, which You have redeemed —
This Mount Zion where You have dwelt.
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 Your feet to the perpetual desolations.
The enemy has damaged everything in the sanctuary.
The enemy has damaged everything in the sanctuary.
Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.
Your enemies roar in the midst of Your meeting place;
They set up their banners for signs.
They set up their banners for signs.
Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs [for] signs.
They seem like men who lift up
Axes among the thick trees.
Axes among the thick trees.
[A man] was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees;
And now they break down its carved work, all at once,
With axes and hammers.
With axes and hammers.
And now they break down its carved work altogether, with hatchets and hammers.
They have set fire to Your sanctuary;
They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name to the ground.
They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name to the ground.
They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitation of thy name 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.
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.
We see not our signs; there is no more any prophet, neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy contemn thy name for ever?
Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand?
Take it out of Your bosom and destroy them.
Take it out of Your bosom and destroy them.
Why withdrawest thou thy hand, and thy right hand? [pluck it] out of thy bosom: consume [them].
For God is my King from of old,
Working salvation in the midst of the earth.
Working salvation in the midst of the earth.
But God is my king of old, accomplishing deliverances 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 broke open the fountain and the flood;
You dried up mighty rivers.
You dried up mighty rivers.
*Thou* didst cleave fountain and torrent, *thou* driedst up ever-flowing rivers.
The day is Yours, the night also is Yours;
You have prepared the light and the sun.
You have prepared the light and the sun.
The day is thine, the night also is thine; *thou* hast prepared the moon and the sun:
You have set all the borders of the earth;
You have made summer and winter.
You have made summer and winter.
*Thou* hast set all the borders of the earth; summer and winter -- *thou* didst form them.
Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O Lord,
And that a foolish people has blasphemed Your name.
And that a foolish people has blasphemed Your name.
Remember this, that an enemy hath reproached Jehovah, and a foolish people have contemned thy name.
Oh, do not deliver the life of Your turtledove to the wild beast!
Do not forget the life of Your poor forever.
Do not forget the life of Your poor forever.
Give not up the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the troop of thine afflicted for ever.
Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence.
Oh, do not let the oppressed return ashamed!
Let the poor and needy praise Your name.
Let the poor and needy praise Your name.
Oh let not the oppressed one return ashamed; let the afflicted and needy praise thy name.
Rise up, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day;