1<\/sup>The understanding of Asaph. O God, why have you rejected us to the end. Why has your fury become enraged over the sheep of your pasture?<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>Be mindful of your congregation, which you have possessed from the beginning. You redeemed the scepter of your inheritance, mount Zion, in which you have dwelt.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>Lift up your hands against their arrogance in the end. How great the malice of the enemy has been in the sanctuary!<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>And those who hate you have been glorified, in the midst of your solemnity. They have set up their own signs as a proof,<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>as if it had been issued from on high; yet they did not understand. As in a forest of chopped wood,<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>they have cut down the entrances themselves. With axe and hatchet, they have brought it down.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>They have set fire to your Sanctuary. They have polluted the tabernacle of your name on earth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>They have said in their heart, the whole group of them together: “Let us cause all the feast days of God to cease from the land.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>We have not seen our proof; there is now no prophet. And he will no longer know us.”<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>How long, O God, will the enemy place blame? Is the adversary to provoke your name until the end?<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>Why do you turn your hand away, even your right hand, from the midst of your sinews, until the end?<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>But God is our king before all ages. He has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>In your virtue, you confirmed the sea. You crushed the heads of the serpents in the waters.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>You have broken the heads of the serpent. You have given him as food for the people of the Ethiopians.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>You have disrupted the fountains and the torrents. You have dried up the rivers of Ethan.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>Yours is the day, and yours is the night. You have made the morning light and the sun.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>You have made all the limits of the earth. The summer and the spring were formed by you.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>Be mindful of this: the enemy placed blame against the Lord, and a foolish people has incited against your name.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>Do not hand over to beasts the souls that confess to you; and do not forget the souls of your poor until the end.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>Consider your covenant. For those who have been darkened upon the earth have been filled by the iniquity of the houses.<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>Do not allow the humble to be turned away in confusion. The poor and the needy will praise your name.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>Rise up, O God, judge your own case. Call to mind the accusations against you, which are made by the foolish all day long.<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>Do not forget the voices of your adversaries. The arrogance of those who hate you rises up continually.<\/span> <\/p>\n