1. Why, O God, have you rejected us forever?Why does your angersmolder against the sheep in your care?
2. Remember your congregation.Long ago you made it your own.You bought this tribe to be your possession.This tribe is Mount Zion, where you have made your home.
3. Turn your steps toward these pathetic ruins.The enemy has destroyed everything in the holy temple.
4. Your opponents have roared inside your meeting place.They have set up their own emblems as symbols.
5. Starting from its entrance, they hacked awaylike a woodcutter in a forest.
6. They smashed all its carved paneling with axes and hatchets.
7. They burned your holy place to the ground.They dishonored the place where you live among us.
8. They said to themselves, “We will crush them.”They burned every meeting place of God in the land.
9. We no longer see miraculous signs.There are no prophets anymore.No one knows how long this will last.
10. How long, O God, will the enemy insult us?Will the enemy despise you forever?
11. Why do you hold back your hand, especially your right hand?Take your hands out of your pockets.Destroy your enemies!
12. And yet, from long ago God has been my king,the one who has been victorious throughout the earth.