1 O God, why have you utterly disowned us? ♦︎
Why does your anger burn
against the sheep of your pasture?
2 Remember your congregation that you purchased of old, ♦︎
the tribe you redeemed for your own possession,
and Mount Zion where you dwelt.
3 Hasten your steps towards the endless ruins, ♦︎
where the enemy has laid waste all your sanctuary.
4 Your adversaries roared in the place of your worship; ♦︎
they set up their banners as tokens of victory.
5 Like men brandishing axes on high in a thicket of trees, ♦︎
all her carved work they smashed down with hatchet and hammer.
6 They set fire to your holy place; ♦︎
they defiled the dwelling place of your name
and razed it to the ground.
7 They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether, ♦︎
and they burned down all the sanctuaries of God in the land.
8 There are no signs to see, not one prophet left, ♦︎
not one among us who knows how long.
9 How long, O God, will the adversary scoff? ♦︎
Shall the enemy blaspheme your name for ever?
10 Why have you withheld your hand ♦︎
and hidden your right hand in your bosom?
11 Yet God is my king from of old, ♦︎
who did deeds of salvation in the midst of the earth.
12 It was you that divided the sea by your might ♦︎
and shattered the heads of the dragons on the waters;
13 You alone crushed the heads of Leviathan ♦︎
and gave him to the beasts of the desert for food.
14 You cleft the rock for fountain and flood; ♦︎
you dried up ever-flowing rivers.
15 Yours is the day, yours also the night; ♦︎
you established the moon and the sun.
16 You set all the bounds of the earth; ♦︎
you fashioned both summer and winter.
17 Remember now, Lord, how the enemy scoffed, ♦︎
how a foolish people despised your name.
18 Do not give to wild beasts the soul of your turtle dove; ♦︎
forget not the lives of your poor for ever.
19 Look upon your creation,
for the earth is full of darkness, ♦︎
full of the haunts of violence.
20 Let not the oppressed turn away ashamed, ♦︎
but let the poor and needy praise your name.
21 Arise, O God, maintain your own cause; ♦︎
remember how fools revile you all the day long.
22 Forget not the clamour of your adversaries, ♦︎
the tumult of your enemies that ascends continually.
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24 Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
and as dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so their root will become rotten,
and their blossom go up like dust;
for they have rejected the instruction of the Lord of hosts,
and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people,
and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them;
the mountains quaked,
and their corpses were like refuse
in the streets.
For all this his anger has not turned away,
and his hand is stretched out still.
26 He will raise a signal for a nation far away,
and whistle for a people at the ends of the earth;
Here they come, swiftly, speedily!
27 None of them is weary, none stumbles,
none slumbers or sleeps,
not a loincloth is loose,
not a sandal-thong broken;
28 their arrows are sharp,
all their bows bent,
their horses hoofs seem like flint,
and their wheels like the whirlwind.
29 Their roaring is like a lion,
like young lions they roar;
they growl and seize their prey,
they carry it off, and no one can rescue.
30 They will roar over it on that day,
like the roaring of the sea.
And if one looks to the land
only darkness and distress;
and the light grows dark with clouds.
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44 Our ancestors had the tent of testimony in the wilderness, as God* directed when he spoke to Moses, ordering him to make it according to the pattern he had seen.
45Our ancestors in turn brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our ancestors. And it was there until the time of David,
46who found favour with God and asked that he might find a dwelling-place for the house of Jacob.*
47But it was Solomon who built a house for him.
48Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands;* as the prophet says,
49 Heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool.
What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord,
or what is the place of my rest?
50 Did not my hand make all these things?
51 You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are for ever opposing the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do. 52Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have become his betrayers and murderers. 53You are the ones that received the law as ordained by angels, and yet you have not kept it.
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