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¹ O God, why do you ^(b)cast us off forever?
    Why does your anger ^(c)smoke against ^(d)the sheep of your pasture?
^2 (e)Remember your congregation, which you have ^(f)purchased of old,
    which you have ^(g)redeemed to be ^(h)the tribe of your heritage!
    Remember Mount Zion, ⁽ⁱ⁾where you have dwelt.
³ Direct your steps to ^(j)the perpetual ruins;
    the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!

⁴ Your foes have ^(k)roared in the midst of your meeting place;
    ^(l)they set up their ^(m)own signs for ⁽ⁿ⁾signs.
⁵ They were like those who swing ^(o)axes
    in a forest of trees.^[b]
6 And all its ^(p)carved wood
    they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
⁷ They ^(q)set your sanctuary on fire;
    they ^(r)profaned ^(s)the dwelling place of your name,
    bringing it down to the ground.
⁸ They ^(t)said to themselves, "We will utterly subdue them";
    they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

⁹ We do not see our ^(u)signs;
    ^(v)there is no longer any prophet,
    and there is none among us who knows how long.
¹⁰ How long, O God, ^(w)is the foe to scoff?
    Is the enemy to revile your name forever?
¹¹ Why ^(x)do you hold back your hand, your right hand?
    Take it from the fold of your garment^[c] and destroy them!

¹² Yet ^(y)God my King is from of old,
    working salvation in the midst of the earth.
¹³ You ^(z)divided the sea by your might;
    you ^(aa)broke the heads of ^(ab)the sea monsters^[d] on the waters.
¹⁴ You crushed the heads of ^(ac)Leviathan;
    you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
¹⁵ You ^(ad)split open springs and brooks;
    you ^(ae)dried up ever-flowing streams.
¹⁶ Yours is the day, yours also the night;
    you have established ^(af)the heavenly lights and the sun.
¹⁷ You have ^(ag)fixed all the boundaries of the earth;
    you have made ^(ah)summer and winter.

^18 (ai)Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy scoffs,
    and ^(aj)a foolish people reviles your name.
¹⁹ Do not deliver the soul of your ^(ak)dove to the wild beasts;
    ^(al)do not forget the life of your poor forever.

²⁰ Have regard for ^(am)the covenant,
    for ^(an)the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
²¹ Let not ^(ao)the downtrodden ^(ap)turn back in shame;
    let ^(aq)the poor and needy praise your name.

²² Arise, O God, ^(ar)defend your cause;
    ^(as)remember how the foolish scoff at you all the day!
²³ Do not forget the clamor of your foes,
    ^(at)the uproar of those who rise against you, which goes up continually!