⁴ Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations;
they set up their ensigns for signs.
⁵ A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
⁶ But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
⁷ They have cast fire into thy sanctuary,
they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
⁸ They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together:
they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

⁹ We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet:
neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
¹⁰ O God, how long shall the adversary reproach?
shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
¹¹ Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand?
pluck it out of thy bosom.

¹² For God is my King of old,
working salvation in the midst of the earth.
¹³ Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength:
thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
¹⁴ Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces,
and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
¹⁵ Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood:
thou driedst up mighty rivers.
¹⁶ The day is thine, the night also is thine:
thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
¹⁷ Thou hast set all the borders of the earth:
thou hast made summer and winter.

¹⁸ Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Lord,
and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
¹⁹ O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked:
forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
²⁰ Have respect unto the covenant:
for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
²¹ O let not the oppressed return ashamed:
let the poor and needy praise thy name.

²² Arise, O God, plead thine own cause:
remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
²³ Forget not the voice of thine enemies:
the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.