{ "1": "God, why have you rejected us forever?\n\\q Why does your anger burn against the sheep of your pasture?\n\\q", "2": "Call to mind your people, whom you purchased in ancient times,\n\\q the tribe whom you have redeemed to be your own heritage,\n\\q and Mount Zion, where you live.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "3": "Come look at the complete ruins,\n\\q all the damage that the enemy has done in the holy place.\n\\q", "4": "Your adversaries roared in the middle of your appointed place;\n\\q they set up their battle flags.\n\\q", "5": "They hacked away with axes\n\\q as in a thick forest.\n\\q", "6": "They smashed and broke down all the engravings;\n\\q they broke them with axes and hammers.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "7": "They set your sanctuary on fire;\n\\q they desecrated where you live, knocking it to the ground.\n\\q", "8": "They said in their hearts, “We will destroy them all.”\n\\q They burned up all of your meeting places in the land.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "9": "We do not see any more signs;\n\\q there is no prophet any more,\n\\q and no one among us knows how long this will last.\n\\q", "10": "How long, God, will the enemy throw insults at you?\n\\q Will the enemy blaspheme your name forever?\n\\q", "11": "Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand?\n\\q Take your right hand from your garment and destroy them.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "12": "Yet God has been my king from ancient times,\n\\q bringing salvation on the earth.\n\\q", "13": "You divided the sea by your strength;\n\\q you smashed the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "14": "You crushed the heads of leviathan;\n\\q you fed him to those living in the wilderness.\n\\q", "15": "You broke open springs and streams;\n\\q you dried up flowing rivers.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "16": "The day is yours, and the night is yours also;\n\\q you set the sun and moon in place.\n\\q", "17": "You have set all the borders of the earth;\n\\q you have made summer and winter.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "18": "Call to mind how the enemy hurled insults at you, Yahweh,\n\\q and that a foolish people has blasphemed your name.\n\\q", "19": "Do not give the life of your dove to a wild animal.\n\\q Do not forget forever the life of your oppressed people.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "20": "Remember your covenant,\n\\q for the dark regions of the land are full of places of violence.\n\\q", "21": "Do not let the oppressed be turned back in shame;\n\\q let the poor and oppressed praise your name.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "22": "Arise, God; defend your own honor;\n\\q call to mind how fools insult you all day long.\n\\q", "23": "Do not forget the voice of your adversaries\n\\q or the uproar of those who continually defy you.\n\n\n\\s5", "front": "\\m\n\\d A maschil of Asaph.\n\\q" }