- [Maschil of Asaph.]
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- O God, why hast thou cast vs off for euer?
why doeth thine anger smoke against the sheepe of thy pasture?
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- Remember thy Congregation which thou hast purchased of olde: the rod of thine inheritance which thou hast redeemed, this mount Sion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
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- Lift vp thy feete vnto the perpetuall desolations: euen all that the enemie hath done wickedly in the Sanctuarie.
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- Thine enemies roare in the midst of thy congregations: they set vp their ensignes for signes.
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- A man was famous according as he had lifted vp axes vpon the thicke trees.
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- But now they breake downe the carued worke thereof at once, with axes and hammers.
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- They haue cast fire into thy Sanctuary, they haue defiled by casting downe, the dwelling place of thy Nawe to the ground.
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- They said in their hearts, Let vs destroy them together: they haue burnt vp all the Synagogues of God in the land.
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- We see not our signes, there is no more any prophet, neither is there among vs any that knoweth howe long.
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- O God, how long shall the aduersarie reproach?
shall the enemie blaspheme thy Name for euer?
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- Why withdrawest thou thy hand, euen thy right hand?
plucke it out of thy bosome.
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- For God is my King of old working saluation in the midst of the earth.
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- Thou didst diuide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
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- Thou brakest the heads of Leuiathan in pieces, and gauest him to bee meat to the people inhabiting the wildernesse.
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- Thou didst cleaue the fountaine and the flood: thou driedst vp mightie riuers.
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- The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sunne.
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- Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: Thou hast made Summer and Winter.
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- Remember this, that the enemie hath reproached, O Lord, and that the foolish people haue blasphemed thy Name.
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- O deliuer not the soule of thy turtle doue vnto the multitude of the wicked forget not the Congregation of thy poore for euer.
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- Haue respect vnto the couenant: for the darke places of the earth are full of the habitations of crueltie.
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- O let not the oppressed returne ashamed: let the poore and needie praise thy name.
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- Arise, O God, plead thine owne cause: remember how the foolish man reprocheth thee daily.
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- Forget not the voyce of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise vp against thee, increaseth continually.
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