| English Standard Version | Berean Study Bible |
| 1O God, why do you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture? | 1A Maskil of Asaph. Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture? |
| 2Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage! Remember Mount Zion, where you have dwelt. | 2Remember Your congregation, which You purchased long ago and redeemed as the tribe of Your inheritance—Mount Zion where You dwell. |
| 3Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary! | 3Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed. |
| 4Your foes have roared in the midst of your meeting place; they set up their own signs for signs. | 4Your foes have roared within Your meeting place; they have unfurled their banners as signs, |
| 5They were like those who swing axes in a forest of trees. | 5like men wielding axes in a thicket of trees |
| 6And all its carved wood they broke down with hatchets and hammers. | 6and smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks. |
| 7They set your sanctuary on fire; they profaned the dwelling place of your name, bringing it down to the ground. | 7They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; they have defiled the dwelling place of Your Name. |
| 8They said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”; they burned all the meeting places of God in the land. | 8They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely.” They burned down every place where God met us in the land. |
| 9We do not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet, and there is none among us who knows how long. | 9There are no signs for us to see. There is no longer any prophet. And none of us knows how long this will last. |
| 10How long, O God, is the foe to scoff? Is the enemy to revile your name forever? | 10How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever? |
| 11Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand? Take it from the fold of your garment and destroy them! | 11Why do You withdraw Your strong right hand? Stretch it out to destroy them! |
| 12Yet God my King is from of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. | 12Yet God is my King from ancient times, working salvation on the earth. |
| 13You divided the sea by your might; you broke the heads of the sea monsters on the waters. | 13You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea; |
| 14You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness. | 14You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert. |
| 15You split open springs and brooks; you dried up ever-flowing streams. | 15You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers. |
| 16Yours is the day, yours also the night; you have established the heavenly lights and the sun. | 16The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun. |
| 17You have fixed all the boundaries of the earth; you have made summer and winter. | 17You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made the summer and winter. |
| 18Remember this, O LORD, how the enemy scoffs, and a foolish people reviles your name. | 18Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name. |
| 19Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild beasts; do not forget the life of your poor forever. | 19Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever. |
| 20Have regard for the covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence. | 20Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land. |
| 21Let not the downtrodden turn back in shame; let the poor and needy praise your name. | 21Do not let the oppressed retreat in shame; may the poor and needy praise Your name. |
| 22Arise, O God, defend your cause; remember how the foolish scoff at you all the day! | 22Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long. |
| 23Do not forget the clamor of your foes, the uproar of those who rise against you, which goes up continually! | 23Do not disregard the clamor of Your adversaries, the uproar of Your enemies that ascends continually. |
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