1. Why, O God hast thou cast off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
2. 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.
3. Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.
4. Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs for signs.
5. A man was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees;
6. And now they break down its carved work altogether, with hatchets and hammers.
7. They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitation of thy name to the ground.
8. They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all ·God's places of assembly in the land.
9. We see not our signs; there is no more any prophet, neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
10. How long, O God shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy contemn thy name for ever?
11. Why withdrawest thou thy hand, and thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom: consume them.
12. But God is my king of old, accomplishing deliverances in the midst of the earth.
13. Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst break the heads of the monsters on the waters:
14. Thou didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert.