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PSALMS
- 28But as for me, the nearness of God is my good;
- I have made the Lord God my refuge,
- That I may tell of all Thy works.
74 Maschil of Asaph.
- Why, O God, hast Thou cast us off for ever?
- Why doth Thine anger smoke against the flock of Thy pasture?
- 2Remember Thy congregation, which Thou hast gotten of old,
- Which Thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of Thine inheritance;
- And mount Zion, wherein Thou hast dwelt.
- 3Lift up Thy steps because of the perpetual ruins,
- Even all the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.
- 4Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of Thy meeting-place;
- They have set up their own signs for signs.
- 5It seemed as when men wield upwards
- Axes in a thicket of trees.
- 6And now all the carved work thereof together
- They strike down with hatchet and hammers.
- 7They have set Thy sanctuary on fire;
- They have profaned the dwelling-place of Thy name even to the ground.
- 8They said in their heart: 'Let us make havoc of them altogether';
- They have burned up all the meeting-places of God in the land.
- 9We see not our signs;
- There is no more any prophet;
- Neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
- 10How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach?
- Shall the enemy blaspheme Thy name for ever?
- 11Why withdrawest Thou Thy hand, even Thy right hand?
- Draw it out of Thy bosom and consume them.
- 12Yet God is my King of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth.
- 13Thou didst break the sea in pieces by Thy strength;
- Thou didst shatter the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.
- 14Thou didst crush the heads of leviathan,
- Thou gavest him to be food to the folk inhabiting the wilderness.
- 15Thou didst cleave fountain and brook;
- Thou driedst up ever-flowing rivers.
- 16Thine is the day, Thine also the night;
- Thou hast established luminary and sun.
- 17Thou hast set all the borders of the earth;
- Thou hast made summer and winter.
- 18Remember this, how the enemy hath reproached the Lord,
- And how a base people have blasphemed Thy name.
- 19O deliver not the soul of Thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast;
- Forget not the life of Thy poor for ever.
- 20Look upon the covenant;
- For the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
- 21O let not the oppressed turn back in confusion;
- Let the poor and needy praise Thy name.
- 22Arise, O God, plead Thine own cause;
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