⁴ Your foes have roared within your holy place;
    they set up their emblems there.^(D)
5 At the upper entrance they hacked
    the wooden trellis with axes.^[a](E)
6 And then, with hatchets and hammers,
    they smashed all its carved work.
⁷ They set your sanctuary on fire;
    they desecrated the dwelling place of your name,
    bringing it to the ground.^(F)
8 They said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”;
    they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.^(G)

⁹ We do not see our emblems;
    there is no longer any prophet,
    and there is no one among us who knows how long.^(H)
10 How long, O God, is the foe to scoff?
    Is the enemy to revile your name forever?^(I)
11 Why do you hold back your hand;
    why do you keep your hand in^[b] your bosom?^(J)

¹² Yet God my King is from of old,
    working salvation in the earth.^(K)
13 You divided the sea by your might;
    you broke the heads of the dragons in the waters.^(L)
14 You crushed the heads of Leviathan;
    you gave him as food^[c] for the creatures of the wilderness.
¹⁵ You cut openings for springs and torrents;
    you dried up ever-flowing streams.^(M)
16 Yours is the day, yours also the night;
    you established the luminaries^[d] and the sun.^(N)
17 You have fixed all the bounds of the earth;
    you made summer and winter.^(O)

¹⁸ Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy scoffs,
    and an impious people reviles your name.^(P)
19 Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild animals;
    do not forget the life of your poor forever.^(Q)

²⁰ Have regard for your^[e] covenant,
    for the dark places of the land are full of the haunts of violence.^(R)
21 Do not let the downtrodden be put to shame;
    let the poor and needy praise your name.^(S)
22 Rise up, O God, plead your cause;
    remember how the impious scoff at you all day long.^(T)
23 Do not forget the clamor of your foes,
    the uproar of your adversaries that goes up continually.^(U)