A contemplation by Asaph.
God, why have you rejected us forever? Deu 29:20Psa 100:3Psa 79:13Jhn 10:26-30Ezk 34:31Psa 44:9Jer 23:1Jer 31:37
Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, Jer 10:16Deu 32:9Exo 15:13Exo 15:16Deu 4:20Psa 135:4Psa 78:68-69Act 20:28
which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance:
Mount Zion, in which you have lived.
Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, Lam 1:10Dan 9:17Psa 79:1Isa 64:10-11Luk 21:24Mrk 11:172Sa 22:39-43Dan 11:31
all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. Lam 2:7Mat 24:152Ch 36:17Dan 6:27Num 2:2Jer 6:1-5Luk 13:1Luk 21:20
They have set up their standards as signs.
They behaved like men wielding axes, 1Ki 5:62Ch 2:14Jer 46:22-23
cutting through a thicket of trees.
Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers. 1Ki 6:181Ki 6:291Ki 6:321Ki 6:35
They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. 2Ki 25:9Deu 12:5Ezk 24:21Isa 64:11Mat 22:7Psa 89:391Ki 8:20Exo 20:24
They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” Psa 83:42Ki 2:32Ki 2:52Ki 4:23Est 3:8-9Mat 4:23Psa 137:72Ch 17:9
They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
We see no miraculous signs. Amo 8:11Ezk 7:261Sa 3:1Lam 2:9Exo 12:13Exo 13:9-10Ezk 20:12Mic 3:6
There is no longer any prophet,
neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Psa 89:50-51Rev 6:10Dan 12:6Psa 13:1-2Psa 44:16Psa 79:12Psa 79:4-5Psa 89:46
Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Lam 2:3Isa 64:12Psa 78:65-66Psa 44:23
Take it from your chest and consume them!
Yet God is my King of old, Isa 33:22Psa 44:4Exo 19:5-61Sa 19:5Exo 15:2-15Hab 3:12-14Isa 63:8Jdg 4:23-24
working salvation throughout the earth.
You divided the sea by your strength. Exo 14:21Psa 78:13Ezk 29:3Isa 51:9-10Ezk 32:2Exo 14:28Isa 11:15-16Neh 9:11
You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. Isa 27:1Job 41:1-34Psa 72:9Psa 104:25-26Job 3:8Num 14:9Exo 12:35-36Exo 14:30
You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.
You opened up spring and stream. Num 20:11Exo 17:5-6Isa 48:21Jos 3:13-17Psa 105:41Isa 44:27Jos 2:102Ki 2:14
You dried up mighty rivers.
The day is yours, the night is also yours. Gen 1:3-5Mat 5:45Psa 136:7-9Gen 1:14-18Psa 104:19Psa 19:1-6Psa 8:3
You have prepared the light and the sun.
You have set all the boundaries of the earth. Deu 32:8Act 17:26Act 14:17Gen 8:22Psa 24:1-2
You have made summer and winter.
Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, LORD. Psa 39:8Deu 32:6Rev 16:19Deu 32:27Ezk 20:14Isa 37:23-24Isa 62:6-7Psa 137:7
Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Sng 2:14Jas 2:5-6Mat 10:16Psa 9:18Isa 60:8Psa 68:10Psa 68:13Psa 72:2
Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.
Honor your covenant, Gen 17:7-8Psa 106:45Heb 8:10Jer 33:20-26Psa 105:8Psa 89:28Psa 89:34-36Deu 12:31
for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Psa 12:5Ezr 3:11Psa 103:6Psa 35:10Psa 9:18Isa 45:17Jer 33:11Psa 102:19-21
Let the poor and needy praise your name.
Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Psa 74:18Isa 52:5Psa 53:1Psa 75:4-5Psa 79:9-10Psa 9:19-20Psa 89:50-51
Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. Isa 37:29Psa 65:7Rev 17:14Jon 1:2Lam 2:16Psa 10:11-12Psa 13:1Psa 2:1-2
The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.