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An Appeal against the Devastation of the Land by the Enemy.
1 O God, why have You
Arejected
us forever?
Why does Your anger
Bsmoke against the
Csheep of Your
1pasture?
2 Remember Your congregation, which You have
Apurchased of old,
Which You have
Bredeemed to be the
Ctribe of Your inheritance;
And this Mount
DZion, where You have dwelt.
3 1Turn Your footsteps toward the
Aperpetual ruins;
The enemy
Bhas damaged everything within the sanctuary.
4 Your adversaries have
Aroared in the midst of Your meeting place;
They have set up their
Bown
1standards
Cfor signs.
5 It seems as if one had lifted up
His 1Aaxe in a
2forest of trees.
6 And now
1all its
Acarved work
They smash with hatchet and
2hammers.
7 They have
1Aburned Your sanctuary
2to the ground;
They have
Bdefiled the dwelling place of Your name.
8 They
Asaid in their heart, “Let us
1completely
2subdue them.”
They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
9 We do not see our
Asigns;
There is
Bno longer any prophet,
Nor is there any among us who knows
Chow long.
10 How long, O God, will the adversary
Arevile,
And the enemy
Bspurn Your name forever?
11 Why
Ado You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand?
From within Your bosom,
Bdestroy
them!
12 Yet God is
Amy king from of old,
Who works deeds of deliverance in the midst of the earth.
13 1You
Adivided the sea by Your strength;
1You
Bbroke the heads of the
Csea monsters
2in the waters.
14 1You crushed the heads of
2ALeviathan;
1You gave him as food for the
3creatures
Bof the wilderness.
15 1You
Abroke open springs and torrents;
1You
Bdried up ever-flowing streams.
16 Yours is the day, Yours also is the night;
1You have
Aprepared the
2light and the sun.
17 1You have
Aestablished all the boundaries of the earth;
1You have
2made
Bsummer and winter.
18 Remember this,
1O Loʀᴅ, that the enemy has
Areviled,
And a
Bfoolish people has spurned Your name.
19 Do not deliver the soul of Your
Aturtledove to the wild beast;
BDo not forget the life of Your afflicted forever.
20 Consider the
Acovenant;
For the
Bdark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
21 Let not the
Aoppressed return dishonored;
Let the
Bafflicted and needy praise Your name.
22 Arise, O God,
and Aplead Your own cause;
Remember
1how the
Bfoolish man reproaches You all day long.
23 Do not forget the voice of Your
Aadversaries,
The
Buproar of those who rise against You which ascends continually.