4. Your adversaries have roared in the midst of Your meeting place; They have set up their own standards for signs.
5. It seems as if one had lifted up His axe in a forest of trees.
6. And now all its carved work They smash with hatchet and hammers.
7. They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name.
8. They said in their heart, "Let us completely subdue them." They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
9. We do not see our signs; There is no longer any prophet, Nor is there any among us who knows how long.
10. How long, O God, will the adversary revile, And the enemy spurn Your name forever?
11. Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand? From within Your bosom, destroy them!
12. Yet God is my king from of old, Who works deeds of deliverance in the midst of the earth.
13. You divided the sea by Your strength; You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
14. You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
15. You broke open springs and torrents; You dried up ever-flowing streams.
16. Yours is the day, Yours also is the night; You have prepared the light and the sun.