1God, why have you rejected us forever?
2Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old,
3Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins,
4Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly.
5They behaved like men wielding axes,
6Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.
7They have burnt your sanctuary to the ground.
8They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.”
9We see no miraculous signs.
10How long, God, shall the adversary reproach?
11Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand?
12Yet God is my King of old,
13You divided the sea by your strength.
14You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces.
15You opened up spring and stream.
16The day is yours, the night is also yours.
17You have set all the boundaries of the earth.
18Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, LORD.
19Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts.
20Honour your covenant,
21Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed.
22Arise, God! Plead your own cause.
23Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries.