Psalms 73:5-20

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.

¹⁵Thou didst cleave fountains and torrents; thou driedst up mighty rivers.

¹⁶The day is thine, and the night is thine; thou hast prepared the sun and the moon.

¹⁷Thou hast made all the borders of the earth; thou hast made summer and spring.

¹⁸Remember this thy creation: an enemy has reproached the Lord, and a foolish people has provoked thy name.

¹⁹Deliver not to the wild beasts a soul that gives praise to thee: forget not for ever the souls of thy poor.

²⁰Look upon thy covenant: for the dark places of the earth are filled with the habitations of iniquity.