O God, why have thou cast off forever? Why does thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

Remember thy congregation, which thou have gotten of old, which thou have redeemed to be the tribe of thine inheritance, [and] mount Zion, at which thou have dwelt.

Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine assembly. They have set up their ensigns for signs.

They have set thy sanctuary on fire. They have profaned the dwelling-place of thy name to the ground.

They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether. They have burned up all the meeting-places of God in the land.

The day is thine; the night is also thine. Thou have prepared the light and the sun.

Thou have set all the borders of the earth. Thou have made summer and winter.

Have respect to the covenant, for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.

[when] the earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved. I have set up the pillars of it. Selah.

The stouthearted are made a spoil. They have slept their sleep, and none of the men of might have found their hands.

Thou have held my eyelids watching. I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

Thou are the God who does wonders. Thou have made known thy strength among the peoples.

With thine arm thou have redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

He brought him from following the ewes that have their young, to be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

O God, the nations have come into thine inheritance. They have defiled thy holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be food to the birds of the heavens, the flesh of thy sanctified to the beasts of the earth.

They have shed their blood like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are round about us.

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.

and render to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached thee, O LORD,

Thou have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

Why have thou broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?

For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult, and those who hate thee have lifted up the head.

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

For they have consulted together with one consent. They make a covenant against thee:

Assyria also is joined with them; they have helped the sons of Lot. Selah.

LORD, thou have been favorable to thy land. Thou have brought back the captivity of Jacob.

Thou have forgiven the iniquity of thy people. Thou have covered all their sin. Selah.

Thou have taken away all thy wrath. Thou have turned from the fierceness of thine anger.

Mercy and truth are met together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

All nations whom thou have made shall come and worship before thee, O LORD, and they shall glorify thy name.

For great is thy loving kindness toward me, and thou have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

O God, the proud have risen up against me, and a company of violent men have sought after my soul, and have not set thee before them.

O turn to me, and have mercy upon me. Give thy strength to thy servant, and save the son of thy handmaid.

Show me a sign for good, that those who hate me may see it, and be put to shame, because thou, LORD, have helped me, and comforted me.

O LORD, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee.

Thou have laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps.

Thy wrath lays hard upon me, and thou have afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

Thou have put my acquaintances far from me. Thou have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

My eye wastes away because of affliction. I have called daily upon thee, O LORD, I have spread forth my hands to thee.

But to thee, O LORD, I have cried, and in the morning my prayer shall come before thee.

Thy fierce wrath has gone over me. Thy terrors have cut me off.

Thou have put beloved and friend far from me, and my acquaintances into darkness.

For I have said, Mercy shall be built up forever. Thy faithfulness thou will establish in the very heavens.

I have made a covenant with my chosen. I have sworn to David my servant:

Thou have broken Rahab in pieces, as a wounded man. Thou have scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength.

The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine, the world and the fullness of it; thou have founded them.

The north and the south, thou have created them. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in thy name.

Thou have a mighty arm. Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.

Then thou spoke in a vision to thy sanctified, and said, I have laid help upon a mighty [man]. I have exalted a chosen [man] out of the people.

I have found David my servant. With my holy oil I have anointed him,

I have sworn once by my holiness; I will not lie to David.

But thou have cast off and rejected. Thou have been angry with thine anointed.

Thou have abhorred the covenant of thy servant. Thou have profaned his crown to the ground.

Thou have broken down all his hedges. Thou have brought his strongholds to ruin.

Thou have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. Thou have made all his enemies to rejoice.

Yea, thou turn back the edge of his sword, and have not made him to stand in the battle.

Thou have made his brightness to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.

The days of his youth thou have shortened. Thou have covered him with shame. Selah.

O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of men!

with which thine enemies have reproached, O LORD, with which they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.

LORD, thou have been our dwelling-place in all generations.

Thou have set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

Make us glad according to the days in which thou have afflicted us, and the years in which we have seen evil.

For thou, O LORD, are my refuge! Thou have made the Most High thy habitation.

For thou, LORD, have made me glad through thy work. I will triumph in the works of thy hands.

But thou have exalted my horn like the wild ox's. I am anointed with fresh oil,

and my eye has seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the evil-doers who rise up against me.

The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice, the floods lift up their waves.

Unless LORD had been my help, my soul would have soon dwelt in silence.

Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee, which frames mischief by statute?

Forty years long I was grieved with [that] generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways.

The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the peoples have seen his glory.

He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places.

I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone upon the house-top.

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

because of thine indignation and thy wrath. For thou have taken me up, and cast me away.

Thou will arise, and have mercy upon Zion, for it is time to have pity upon her, yea, the set time has come.

For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity upon her dust.

but thou are the same, and thy years shall have no end.

Thou have set a bound that they may not pass over, that they turn not again to cover the earth.

By them the birds of the heavens have their habitation. They sing among the branches.

O LORD, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom have thou made them all. The earth is full of thy riches.

There go the ships. There is leviathan, whom thou have formed to play in it.

I will sing to LORD as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.

We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. we have done wickedly.

Then they are glad because they are quiet, so he brings them to their desired haven.

Have thou not cast us off, O God? And thou go not forth, O God, with our armies.

for they have opened against me the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

They have also encompassed me about with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor let there be any to have pity on his fatherless sons.

I also have become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

that they may know that this is thy hand, [that] thou, LORD, have done it.

Thy people offer themselves willingly in the day of thy power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning thou have the dew of thy youth.

The works of LORD are great, sought out by all those who have pleasure in it.

The fear of LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and all who act accordingly have a good understanding. His praise endures forever.