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 says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it."

²² You have seen it, Yahweh. Don't keep silent. Lord, don't be far from me.

¹⁰ How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

¹¹ Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it out of your pocket and consume them!

¹⁸ Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.

¹⁹ Don't deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don't forget the life of your poor forever.

²⁰ Honor your covenant, For haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.

²¹ Don't let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.

²² Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.

²³ Don't forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.

²³ 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 to them; and I hid my face from them.