⁵ Will you go on being angry with us for ever? will you keep your wrath against us through all the long generations?

⁵ How long, O Lord? will you be angry for ever? will your wrath go on burning like fire?

¹ <Maschil. Of Asaph.> Of God, why have you put us away from you for ever? why is the fire of your wrath smoking against the sheep who are your care?

⁴ O Lord God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your people?

⁹ Has God put away the memory of his pity? are his mercies shut up by his wrath? (Selah.)

⁴⁶ How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire?

⁹ Your holy towns have become a waste, Zion has become a waste, Jerusalem is a mass of broken walls.

¹⁰ Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers gave praise to you, is burned with fire; and all the things of our desire have come to destruction.

¹¹ In view of all this, will you still do nothing, O Lord? will you keep quiet, and go on increasing our punishment?

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¹⁸ Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.

²⁴ And they will be put to death with the sword, and will be taken as prisoners into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be crushed under the feet of the Gentiles, till the times of the Gentiles are complete.

²¹ And a strong angel took up a stone like the great stone with which grain is crushed, and sent it into the sea, saying, So, with a great fall, will Babylon, the great town, come to destruction, and will not be seen any more at all.

²² And the voice of players and makers of music will never again be sounding in you: and no worker, expert in art, will ever again be living in you; and there will be no sound of the crushing of grain any more at all in you;

²³ And never again will the shining of lights be seen in you; and the voice of the newly-married man and the bride will never again be sounding in you: for your traders were the lords of the earth, and by your evil powers were all the nations turned out of the right way.