²² My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane my secret `place'; and robbers shall enter into it, and profane it.

¹⁷ I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

¹¹ He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten; He hideth his face; he will never see it.

²² Thou hast seen it, O Jehovah; keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

¹⁰ How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

¹¹ Why drawest thou back thy hand, even thy right hand? `Pluck it' out of thy bosom `and' consume `them'.

¹⁸ Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.

¹⁹ Oh deliver not the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast: Forget not the life of thy poor for ever.

²⁰ Have respect unto the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.

²¹ Oh let not the oppressed return ashamed: Let the poor and needy praise thy name.

²² Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: Remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day.

²³ Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: The tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually. Psalm 75 For the Chief Musician; `set to' Al-tash-heth. A Psalm of Asaph; a song.

²³ And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them: so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they fell all of them by the sword.

²⁴ According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions did I unto them; and I hid my face from them.