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¹ Wherefore, O God, hast thou cast off utterly? Shall thine anger smoke against the flock of thine own pasturing?² Remember thine own assembly thou didst acquire aforetime, Thou didst redeem the tribe of thine own inheritance, Mount Zion, wherein thou didst take up thy habitation.³ Lift up thy steps unto the places utterly unsafe, All the mischief! - the foe in the sanctuary!⁴ Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine appointed meeting, They have set their ensigns as tokens!⁵ One used to be known according as he carried up high - into the thicket of trees - the axes;⁶ But, now, the doors thereof all together, with axes and hammers, they batter down.⁷ They have cast, into the fire, thy sanctuary, To the ground, have they profaned the habitation of thy Name.⁸ They have said in their heart, Let us suppress them altogether, They have burned up all the meeting-places of GOD in the land.⁹ Our own signs, have we not seen, - There is no longer a prophet, - Neither is there with us, one who knoweth - How long!¹⁰ How long, O God, shall the adversary, reproach? Shall the enemy revile thy Name perpetually?¹¹ Wherefore shouldst thou withdraw thy hand - thy right hand? Bring it out of the midst of thy bosom! Selah.

¹² But, God, hath been my king from aforetime, Working Deliverances in the midst of the earth.¹³ Thou, didst cleave asunder, in thy might, the sea, Thou didst break in pieces the heads of the Crocodiles, till they floated on the waters;¹⁴ Thou, didst crush the heads of the Sea-Monster, Thou didst give him to be food, for the people of the deserts;¹⁵ Thou, didst cleave open fountain and torrent, Thou, didst dry up rivers of steady flow:¹⁶ Thine, is the day, Yea, thine, the night, Thou, didst establish moon and sun;¹⁷ Thou, didst set up all the bounds of the earth, As for summer and winter, thou, didst form them!

¹⁸ Remember this, An enemy, hath reproached Yahweh, Yea, an impious people, have reviled thy Name.¹⁹ Do not deliver up, to a wild beast, the life of thy turtle-dove, The living host of thine oppressed ones, do not forget perpetually.²⁰ Have respect to thy covenant, For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.²¹ May the crushed one not again be confounded, As for the oppressed and the needy, let them praise thy Name.²² Arise! O God, plead thine own cause, Remember the reproach of thee, from the impious one, all the day:²³ Do not forget the voice of thine adversaries, The noise of thine assailants, ascending continually.