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