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A Maskiyl of Asaph. Why, Elohim, have You rejected forever? Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?
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Remember Your congregation, which You acquired from ancient time, the tribe of Your Inheritance You redeemed, this Mount Tziyon where You dwelt.
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Lift Your steps toward perpetual ruins; the enemy has done all evil in the Set-Apart Place.
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Your adversaries roared within Your appointed place; they set their signs as signs.
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One was known as lifting axes into a thicket of trees.
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And now all its carvings together they strike with hatchet and hammers.
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They sent Your Set-Apart Place into fire; to the earth they profaned the dwelling of Your Name.
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They said in their heart, “Let us oppress them together.” They burned all appointed places of El in the land.
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We do not see our signs; there is no longer a prophet, and none with us knows until when.
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Until when, Elohim, does the adversary reproach? Does the enemy despise Your Name forever?
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Why do You return Your hand, even Your right hand? From within Your bosom, finish them.
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Yet Elohim is my King from ancient time, working Salvation in the midst of the earth.
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You divided the sea by Your strength; You broke the heads of sea-monsters upon the waters.
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You crushed the heads of Livyatan; You gave him as food to the people of desert creatures.
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You split open spring and torrent; You dried ever-flowing rivers.
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Day is Yours; night also is Yours. You established light and sun.
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You set all boundaries of the earth; summer and winter, You formed them.
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Remember this: the enemy reproached Yahuah, and a foolish people despised Your Name.
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Do not give the being of Your turtledove to the beast; do not forget the life of Your afflicted ones forever.
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Look to the Covenant, for dark places of the earth are full of habitations of violence.
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Do not let the crushed return humiliated; let the afflicted and needy praise Your Name.
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Arise, Elohim; contend Your cause. Remember Your reproach from the fool all day.
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Do not forget the voice of Your adversaries; the roar of those rising against You ascends continually.