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NEW KING JAMES VERSION
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O God, why have You
cast us off forever?
Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?
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Remember Your
congregation, which You have purchased of old,
The tribe of Your inheritance, which You have redeemed —
This Mount Zion where You have dwelt.
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Lift up Your feet to
the perpetual desolations.
The enemy has damaged everything in the sanctuary.
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Your enemies roar in
the midst of Your meeting place;
They set up their banners for signs.
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They seem like men
who lift up
Axes among the thick trees.
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And now they break
down its carved work, all at once,
With axes and hammers.
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They have set fire
to Your sanctuary;
They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name to the ground.
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They said in their
hearts,
“Let us destroy them altogether.”
They have burned up all the meeting places of God in the land.
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We do not see our
signs;
There is no longer any prophet;
Nor is there any among us who knows how long.
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O God, how long will
the adversary reproach?
Will the enemy blaspheme Your name forever?
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Why do You withdraw
Your hand, even Your right hand?
Take it out of Your bosom and destroy them.
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For God is my King
from of old,
Working salvation in the midst of the earth.
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You divided the sea
by Your strength;
You broke the heads of the sea serpents in the waters.
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You broke the heads
of Leviathan in pieces,
And gave him as food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
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You broke open the
fountain and the flood;
You dried up mighty rivers.
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The day is Yours,
the night also is Yours;
You have prepared the light and the sun.
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You have set all the
borders of the earth;
You have made summer and winter.
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Remember this, that
the enemy has reproached, O LORD,
And that a foolish people has blasphemed Your name.
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Oh, do not deliver
the life of Your turtledove to the wild beast!
Do not forget the life of Your poor forever.
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Have respect to the
covenant;
For the dark places of the earth are full of the haunts of cruelty.
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Oh, do not let the
oppressed return ashamed!
Let the poor and needy praise Your name.
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Arise, O God, plead
Your own cause;
Remember how the foolish man reproaches You daily.
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Do not forget the
voice of Your enemies;
The tumult of those who rise up against You increases continually.
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