4Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs for signs.
5A man was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees;
6And now they break down its carved work altogether, with hatchets and hammers.
7They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitation of thy name to the ground.
8They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all God's places of assembly in the land.
9We see not our signs; there is no more any prophet, neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
10How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy contemn thy name for ever?
11Why withdrawest thou thy hand, and thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom: consume them.
12But God is my king of old, accomplishing deliverances in the midst of the earth.
13Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst break the heads of the monsters on the waters:
14Thou didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert.
15Thou didst cleave fountain and torrent, thou driedst up ever-flowing rivers.