Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.

But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.

They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.