Psalms 73:5-22

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 burned 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 anymore.

¹⁰How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach? Shall the enemy provoke thy name forever?

¹¹Wherefore turnest thou away thy hand, And thy right hand from the midst of thy bosom forever?

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 forever the souls of thy poor.

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

²¹Let not the afflicted and shamed one be rejected: The poor and needy shall praise thy name.

²²Arise, O God, plead thy cause: Remember thy reproaches that come from the foolish one all the day.