^{1 Ref} O God, why hast thou cast `us' off for ever? Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

^{2 Ref} Remember thy congregation, which thou hast gotten of old, Which thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of thine inheritance; `And' mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

^{3 Ref} Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins, All the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.

^{4 Ref} Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine assembly; They have set up their ensigns for signs.

^{5 Ref} They seemed as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket of trees.

^{6 Ref} And now all the carved work thereof They break down with hatchet and hammers.

^{7 Ref} They have set thy sanctuary on fire; They have profaned the dwelling-place of thy name `by casting it' to the ground.

^{8 Ref} They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether: They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

^{9 Ref} We see not our signs: There is no more any prophet; Neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

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

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

^{12 Ref} Yet God is my King of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth.

^{13 Ref} Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: Thou brakest the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.

^{14 Ref} Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces; Thou gavest him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

^{15 Ref} Thou didst cleave fountain and flood: Thou driedst up mighty rivers.

^{16 Ref} The day is thine, the night also is thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

^{17 Ref} Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: Thou hast made summer and winter.

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

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

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

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

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

^{23 Ref} 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.