An Appeal to God against the Enemy |
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O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever?
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Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? |
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Remember thy congregation,
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which thou hast purchased of old; |
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the rod of thine inheritance, |
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which thou hast redeemed; |
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this mount Zion, |
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wherein thou hast dwelt. |
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Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations;
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even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. |
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Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations;
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they set up their ensigns for signs. |
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A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
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But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
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They have cast fire into thy sanctuary,
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they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground. |
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They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together:
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they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land. |
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We see not our signs:
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there is no more any prophet: |
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neither is there among us any that knoweth how long. |
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O God, how long shall the adversary reproach?
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Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever? |
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Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand?
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Pluck it out of thy bosom. |
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For God is my King of old,
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working salvation in the midst of the earth. |
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Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: Ex. 14.21
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thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. |
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Thou brakest the heads of leviathan Job. 41.1 · Ps. 104.26 · Is. 27.1 in pieces,
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and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness. |
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Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood:
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thou driedst up mighty rivers. |
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The day is thine, the night also is thine:
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thou hast prepared the light and the sun. |
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Thou hast set all the borders of the earth:
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thou hast made summer and winter. |
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Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD,
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and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. |
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O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked:
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forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever. |
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Have respect unto the covenant:
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for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. |
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O let not the oppressed return ashamed:
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let the poor and needy praise thy name. |
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Arise, O God, plead thine own cause:
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remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily. |
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Forget not the voice of thine enemies:
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the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually. |
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