| International Standard Version | Berean Study Bible |
| 1Why, God? Have you rejected us forever? Your anger is burning 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 community, whom you purchased long ago, the tribe whom you redeemed for your possession. Remember Mount Zion, where you live. | 2Remember Your congregation, which You purchased long ago and redeemed as the tribe of Your inheritance—Mount Zion where You dwell. |
| 3Hurry! Look at the permanent ruins— every calamity the enemy brought upon the Holy Place. | 3Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed. |
| 4Those who are opposing you roar where we were meeting with you; they unfurl their war banners as signs. | 4Your foes have roared within Your meeting place; they have unfurled their banners as signs, |
| 5As one blazes a trail through a forest with an ax, | 5like men wielding axes in a thicket of trees |
| 6now they're tearing down all its carved work with hatchets and hammers. | 6and smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks. |
| 7They burned your sanctuary to the ground, desecrating your dwelling place. | 7They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; they have defiled the dwelling place of Your Name. |
| 8They say to themselves, "We'll crush them completely;" They burned down 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 see no signs for us; there is no longer a prophet, and no one among us knows the future. | 9There are no signs for us to see. There is no longer any prophet. And none of us knows how long this will last. |
| 10God, how long will the adversary scorn while the enemy despises your name endlessly? | 10How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever? |
| 11Why do you not withdraw your hand— your right hand—from your bosom and destroy them? | 11Why do You withdraw Your strong right hand? Stretch it out to destroy them! |
| 12But God is my king from ancient times, who brings acts of deliverance throughout the earth. | 12Yet God is my King from ancient times, working salvation on the earth. |
| 13You split the sea by your own power. You shattered the heads of sea monsters in the water. | 13You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea; |
| 14You crushed the heads of Leviathan. You set it as food for desert creatures. | 14You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert. |
| 15You opened both the spring and the river; you dried up flowing rivers. | 15You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers. |
| 16Yours is the day, and yours is the night; you established the moon and the sun. | 16The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun. |
| 17You set all the boundaries of the earth; you made summer and winter. | 17You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made the summer and winter. |
| 18Remember this: The enemy scorns the LORD and a foolish people despises your name. | 18Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name. |
| 19Don't hand over the life of your dove to beasts; do not continuously forget your afflicted ones. | 19Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever. |
| 20Pay attention to your covenant, for the dark regions of the earth are full of violence. | 20Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land. |
| 21Don't let the oppressed return in humiliation. The poor and needy will praise your name. | 21Do not let the oppressed retreat in shame; may the poor and needy praise Your name. |
| 22Get up, God, and prosecute your case— remember that you're being scorned by fools all day long. | 22Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long. |
| 23Don't ignore the shout of those opposing you, The uproar of those who rebel against you continuously. | 23Do not disregard the clamor of Your adversaries, the uproar of Your enemies that ascends continually. |
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