| 1 O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? | 1 Understanding for Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off unto the end: why is thy wrath enkindled against the sheep of thy pasture? |
| 2 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt. | 2 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast possessed from the beginning. The sceptre of thy inheritance which thou hast redeemed: mount Sion in which thou hast dwelt. |
| 3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. | 3 Lift up thy hands against their pride unto the end; see what things the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. |
| 4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs. | 4 And they that hate thee have made their boasts, in the midst of thy solemnity. They have set up their ensigns for signs, |
| 5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees. | 5 and they knew not both in the going out and on the highest top. As with axes in a wood of trees, |
| 6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers. | 6 they have cut down at once the gates thereof, with axe and hatchet they have brought it down. |
| 7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground. | 7 They have set fire to thy sanctuary: they have defiled the dwelling place of thy name on the earth. |
| 8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land. | 8 They said in their heart, the whole kindred of them together: Let us abolish all the festival days of God from the land. |
| 9 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long. | 9 Our signs we have not seen, there is now no prophet: and he will know us no more. |
| 10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever? | 10 How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach: is the adversary to provoke thy name for ever? |
| 11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom. | 11 Why dost thou turn away thy hand: and thy right hand out of the midst of thy bosom for ever ? |
| 12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. | 12 But God is our king before ages: he hath wrought salvation in the midst of the earth. |
| 13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. | 13 Thou by thy strength didst make the sea firm: thou didst crush the heads of the dragons in the waters. |
| 14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness. | 14 Thou hast broken the heads of the dragon: thou hast given him to be meat for the people of the Ethiopians. |
| 15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers. | 15 Thou hast broken up the fountains and the torrents: thou hast dried up the Ethan rivers. |
| 16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. | 16 Thine is the day, and thine is the night: thou hast made the morning light and the sun. |
| 17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter. | 17 Thou hast made all the borders of the earth: the summer and the spring were formed by thee. |
| 18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. | 18 Remember this, the enemy hath reproached the Lord: and a foolish people hath provoked thy name. |
| 19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever. | 19 Deliver not up to beasts the souls that confess to thee: and forget not to the end the souls of thy poor. |
| 20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. | 20 Have regard to thy covenant: for they that are the obscure of the earth have been filled with dwellings of iniquity. |
| 21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name. | 21 Let not the humble be turned away with confusion: the poor and needy shall praise thy name. |
| 22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily. | 22 Arise, O God, judge thy own cause: remember thy reproaches with which the foolish man hath reproached thee all the day. |
| 23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually. | 23 Forget not the voices of thy enemies: the pride of them that hate thee ascendeth continually. |