Psalms 73:4-13

⁴And they that hate thee have made their boasts, in the midst of thy solemnity. They have set up their ensigns for signs,

⁵And they knew not both in the going out and on the highest top. As with axes in a wood of trees,

⁶They have cut down at once the gates thereof, with axe and hatchet they have brought it down.

⁷They have set fire to thy sanctuary: they have defiled the dwelling place of thy name on the earth.

⁸They said in their heart, the whole kindred of them together: Let us abolish all the festival days of God from the land.

⁹Our signs we have not seen, there is now no prophet: and he will know us no more.

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

¹¹Why dost thou turn away thy hand: and thy right hand out of the midst of thy bosom for ever?

¹²But God is our king before ages: he hath wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.

¹³Thou by thy strength didst make the sea firm: thou didst crush the heads of the dragons in the waters.