Psalms 73:2-14

²Remember thy congregation which thou hast purchased from the beginning; thou didst ransom the rod of thine inheritance; this mount Sion wherein thou hast dwelt.

³Lift up thine hands against their pride continually; because of all that the enemy has done wickedly in thy holy places.

⁴And they that hate thee have boasted in the midst of thy feast; they have set up their standards for signs,

⁵ignorantly as it were in the entrance above;

⁶they cut down its doors at once with axes as in a wood of trees; they have broken it down with hatchet and stone cutter.

⁷They have burnt thy sanctuary with fire to the ground; they have profaned the habitation of thy name.

⁸They have said in their heart, even all their kindred together, Come, let us abolish the feasts of the Lord from the earth.

⁹We have not seen our signs; there is no longer a prophet; and God will not know us any more.

¹⁰How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach? shall the enemy provoke thy name for ever?

¹¹Wherefore turnest thou away thine hand, and thy right hand from the midst of thy bosom for ever?

¹²But God is our King of old; he has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.

¹³Thou didst establish the sea, in thy might, thou didst break to pieces the heads of the dragons in the water.

¹⁴Thou didst break to pieces the heads of the dragon; thou didst give him for meat to the Ethiopian nations.