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Maschil of Asaph. Why, O G-d, hast Thou cast us off for ever? Why doth Thine anger smoke against the flock of Thy pasture

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Remember Thy congregation, which Thou hast gotten of old, which Thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of Thine inheritance; and mount Zion, wherein Thou hast dwelt

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Lift up Thy steps because of the perpetual ruins, even all the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary

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Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of Thy meeting-place; they have set up their own signs for signs

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It seemed as when men wield upwards axes in a thicket of trees

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And now all the carved work thereof together they strike down with hatchet and hammers

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They have set Thy sanctuary on fire; they have profaned the dwelling-place of Thy name even to the ground

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They said in their heart: 'Let us make havoc of them altogether'; they have burned up all the meeting-places of G-d in the land

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We see not our signs; there is no more any prophet; neither is there among us any that knoweth how long

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How long, O G-d, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme Thy name for ever

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Why withdrawest Thou Thy hand, even Thy right hand? Draw it out of Thy bosom and consume them

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Yet G-d is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth

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Thou didst break the sea in pieces by Thy strength; Thou didst shatter the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters

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Thou didst crush the heads of leviathan, Thou gavest him to be food to the folk inhabiting the wilderness

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Thou didst cleave fountain and brook; Thou driedst up ever-flowing rivers

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Thine is the day, Thine also the night; Thou hast established luminary and sun

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Thou hast set all the borders of the earth; Thou hast made summer and winter

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Remember this, how the enemy hath reproached HaShem, and how a base people have blasphemed Thy name

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O deliver not the soul of Thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the life of Thy poor for ever

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Look upon the covenant; for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence

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O let not the oppressed turn back in confusion; let the poor and needy praise Thy name

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Arise, O G-d, plead Thine own cause; remember Thy reproach all the day at the hand of the base man

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Forget not the voice of Thine adversaries, the tumult of those that rise up against Thee which ascendeth continually