1A Maskil[1] of Asaph. O God, why do you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture? (تث 29:20; مز 18:8; مز 44:9; مز 50:1; مز 79:13; مز 95:7; مز 100:3; إر 23:1; حز 34:31)2Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage! Remember Mount Zion, where you have dwelt. (خر 15:16; تث 32:6; مز 9:11; مز 74:18; مز 74:22; مز 77:15; مز 78:54; إش 63:9; إش 63:17; إر 10:16; إر 51:19)3Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary! (إش 61:4)4Your foes have roared in the midst of your meeting place; they set up their own signs for signs. (عد 2:2; مز 74:9; مرا 2:6; مت 24:15)5They were like those who swing axes in a forest of trees.[2] (إر 46:22)6And all its carved wood they broke down with hatchets and hammers. (1مل 6:18; 1مل 6:29; 1مل 6:32; 1مل 6:35)7They set your sanctuary on fire; they profaned the dwelling place of your name, bringing it down to the ground. (2مل 25:9; مز 26:8; مز 79:1; مز 89:39; مرا 2:2)8They said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”; they burned all the meeting places of God in the land. (مز 83:4)9We do not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet, and there is none among us who knows how long. (1صم 3:1; مز 74:4; مرا 2:9; حز 7:26; عا 8:11)10How long, O God, is the foe to scoff? Is the enemy to revile your name forever? (مز 74:18; مز 74:22; مز 79:12; مز 89:51)11Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand? Take it from the fold of your garment[3] and destroy them! (مرا 2:3)12Yet God my King is from of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. (مز 44:4)13You divided the sea by your might; you broke the heads of the sea monsters[4] on the waters. (خر 14:21; إش 27:1; إش 51:9)14You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness. (أي 41:1)15You split open springs and brooks; you dried up ever-flowing streams. (خر 14:21; خر 17:5; عد 20:11; يش 2:10; يش 3:13; يش 4:23; مز 66:6; مز 78:15; مز 105:41; إش 48:21; إش 51:10)16Yours is the day, yours also the night; you have established the heavenly lights and the sun. (تك 1:14; مز 104:19)17You have fixed all the boundaries of the earth; you have made summer and winter. (تك 8:22; تث 32:8; أع 17:26)18Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy scoffs, and a foolish people reviles your name. (تث 32:6; مز 39:8; مز 74:2; مز 74:22; مز 89:50; رؤ 16:19; رؤ 18:5)19Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild beasts; do not forget the life of your poor forever. (مز 68:10; نش 2:14)20Have regard for the covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence. (تك 17:7; لا 26:44; مز 10:8; مز 106:45; إر 33:21)21Let not the downtrodden turn back in shame; let the poor and needy praise your name. (مز 6:10; مز 9:9; مز 10:18; مز 86:1)22Arise, O God, defend your cause; remember how the foolish scoff at you all the day! (1صم 24:15; مز 74:2; مز 74:18)23Do not forget the clamor of your foes, the uproar of those who rise against you, which goes up continually! (مز 65:7)