Dual Panel1O GOD, why do You cast us off forever? Why does Your anger burn {and} smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?
2[Earnestly] remember Your congregation which You have acquired of old, which You have redeemed to be the tribe of Your heritage; remember Mount Zion, where You have dwelt.
3Direct Your feet [quickly] to the perpetual ruins {and} desolations; the foe has devastated {and} desecrated everything in the sanctuary.
4In the midst of Your Holy Place Your enemies have roared [with their battle cry]; they set up their own [idol] emblems for signs [of victory].
5They seemed like men who lifted up axes upon a thicket of trees to make themselves a record.
6And then all the carved wood of the Holy Place they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
7They have set Your sanctuary on fire; they have profaned the dwelling place of Your Name by casting it to the ground.
8They said in their hearts, Let us make havoc [of such places] altogether. They have burned up all God's meetinghouses in the land.
9We do not see our symbols; there is no longer any prophet, neither does any among us know for how long.
10O God, how long is the adversary to scoff {and} reproach? Is the enemy to blaspheme {and} revile Your name forever?
11Why do You hold back Your hand, even Your right hand? Draw it out of Your bosom {and} consume them [make an end of them]!
12Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
13You did divide the [Red] Sea by Your might; You broke the heads of the [Egyptian] dragons in the waters.
14You crushed the heads of Leviathan (Egypt); You did give him as food for the creatures inhabiting the wilderness.
15You did cleave open [the rock bringing forth] fountains and streams; You dried up mighty, ever-flowing rivers (the Jordan).
16The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have established the [starry] light and the sun.
17You have fixed all the borders of the earth [the divisions of land and sea and of the nations]; You have made summer and winter. [Acts17:26.]
18[Earnestly] remember how the enemy has scoffed, O Lord, {and} reproached You, and how a foolish {and} impious people has blasphemed Your name.
19Oh, do not deliver the life of your turtledove to the wild beast (to the greedy multitude); forget not the life [of the multitude] of Your poor forever.
20Have regard for the covenant [You made with Abraham], for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
21Oh, let not the downtrodden return in shame; let the oppressed and needy praise Your name.
22Arise, O God, plead Your own cause; remember [earnestly] how the foolish {and} impious man scoffs {and} reproaches You day after day {and} all day long.
23Do not forget the [clamoring] voices of Your adversaries, the tumult of those who rise up against You, which ascends continually.