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716 Book of Psalms

16 I studied that I might know this thing, it dled against the sheep of thy pasture?
is a labour in my sight: 2 Remember thy congregation, which thou
17 Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and hast possessed from the beginning. The scep-
understand concerning their last ends. tre of thy inheritance which thou hast redeemed:
18 But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to mount Sion in which thou hast dwelt.
them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast 3 Lift up thy hands against their pride unto
them down. the end; see what things the enemy hath done
19 How are they brought to desolation? they wickedly in the sanctuary.
have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished 4 And they that hate thee have made their
by reason of their iniquity. boasts, in the midst of thy solemnity. They have
20 As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; set up their ensigns for signs,
so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to 5 And they knew not both in the going out
nothing. and on the highest top. As with axes in a wood
21 For my heart hath been inflamed, and my of trees,
reins have been changed: 6 They have cut down at once the gates
22 And I am brought to nothing, and I knew thereof, with axe and hatchet they have brought
not. it down.
23 I am become as a beast before thee: and I 7 They have set fire to thy sanctuary: they
am always with thee. have defiled the dwelling place of thy name on
24 Thou hast held me by my right hand; and the earth.
by thy will thou hast conducted me, and with 8 They said in their heart, the whole kindred
thy glory thou hast received me. of them together: Let us abolish all the festival
25 For what have I in heaven? and besides days of God from the land.
thee what do I desire upon earth?
9 Our signs we have not seen, there is now no
26 For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted prophet: and he will know us no more.
away: thou art the God of my heart, and the
10 How long, O God, shall the enemy re-
God that is my portion for ever.
proach: is the adversary to provoke thy name
27 For behold they that go far from thee shall
for ever?
perish: thou hast destroyed all them that are
11 Why dost thou turn away thy hand: and
disloyal to thee.
thy right hand out of the midst of thy bosom for
28 But it is good for me to adhere to my God,
ever?
to put my hope in the Lord God: That I may de-
12 But God is our king before ages: he hath
clare all thy praises, in the gates of the daughter
wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.
of Sion.
13 Thou by thy strength didst make the sea
firm: thou didst crush the heads of the dragons
Chapter 73 in the waters.
14 Thou hast broken the heads of the dragon:
Understanding for Asaph. O God, why hast thou thou hast given him to be meat for the people of
cast us off unto the end: why is thy wrath enkin- the Ethiopians.