Why Have You Rejected Us Forever? (Psalm 79:1–13; Jeremiah 52:1–11)
1 WBS Maschil of Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thy anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? BSB BSB: A Maskil of Asaph. Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
2 WBS Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old: the rod of thy inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, in which thou hast dwelt. BSB BSB: Remember Your congregation, which You purchased long ago and redeemed as the tribe of Your inheritance—Mount Zion, where You dwell.
3 WBS Lift up thy feet to the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. BSB BSB: Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed.
4 WBS Thy enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs. BSB BSB: Your foes have roared within Your meeting place; they have unfurled their banners as signs,
5 WBS A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.BSB BSB: like men wielding axes in a thicket of trees
6 WBS But now they break down the carved work of it at once with axes and hammers. BSB BSB: and smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks.
7 WBS They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling-place of thy name to the ground. BSB BSB: They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; they have defiled the dwelling place of Your Name.
8 WBS They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land. BSB BSB: They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely.” They burned down every place where God met us in the land.
9 WBS We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long. BSB BSB: There are no signs for us to see. There is no longer any prophet. And none of us knows how long this will last.
10 WBS O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever? BSB BSB: How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?
11 WBS Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom. BSB BSB: Why do You withdraw Your strong right hand? Stretch it out to destroy them!
12 WBS For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. BSB BSB: Yet God is my King from ancient times, working salvation on the earth.
13 WBS Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou didst break the heads of the dragons in the waters. BSB BSB: You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;
14 WBS Thou didst break the head of leviathan in pieces, and didst give him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness. BSB BSB: You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.
15 WBS Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou didst dry up mighty rivers. BSB BSB: You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.
16 WBS The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. BSB BSB: The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.
17 WBS Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter. BSB BSB: You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made the summer and winter.
18 WBS Remember this, the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. BSB BSB: Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.
19 WBS O deliver not the soul of thy turtle dove to the multitude of the wicked : forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever. BSB BSB: Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever.
20 WBS Have respect to the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. BSB BSB: Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
21 WBS O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name. BSB BSB: Do not let the oppressed retreat in shame; may the poor and needy praise Your name.
22 WBS Arise, O God, plead thy own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily. BSB BSB: Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long.
23 WBS Forget not the voice of thy enemies: the tumult of those that rise against thee increaseth continually. BSB BSB: Do not disregard the clamor of Your adversaries, the uproar of Your enemies that ascends continually.
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