1Understanding for Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off unto the end: why is thy wrath enkindled against the sheep of thy pasture?

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2Remember thy congregation, which thou hast possessed from the beginning. The sceptre of thy inheritance which thou hast redeemed: mount Sion in which thou hast dwelt.

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Matthew 5:8, Matthew 5:8, Psalms 51:10, Psalms 51:10, Luke 12:32

3Lift up thy hands against their pride unto the end; see what things the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

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Psalms 94:18, Psalms 94:18, 1 Samuel 2:9, 1 Samuel 2:9, Psalms 116:8

4And they that hate thee have made their boasts, in the midst of thy solemnity. They have set up their ensigns for signs,

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Job 21:7, Job 21:7, Psalms 37:7, Jeremiah 12:1, Proverbs 23:17

5And they knew not both in the going out and on the highest top. As with axes in a wood of trees,

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Job 21:23, Job 21:24, Job 21:23, Job 21:24, Psalms 17:10

6They have cut down at once the gates thereof, with axe and hatchet they have brought it down.

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Psalms 73:12, Job 21:9, Psalms 73:12, Job 21:9, Revelation 3:19

7They have set fire to thy sanctuary: they have defiled the dwelling place of thy name on the earth.

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Psalms 109:18, Psalms 109:18, 1 Peter 5:5, 1 Peter 5:5, Judges 8:26

8They said in their heart, the whole kindred of them together: Let us abolish all the festival days of God from the land.

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Psalms 17:10, Job 15:27, Jeremiah 5:28, Psalms 17:10, Job 15:27

9Our signs we have not seen, there is now no prophet: and he will know us no more.

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Jude 1:16, Jude 1:16, Psalms 17:10, Psalms 17:10, Psalms 10:2

10How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach: is the adversary to provoke thy name for ever?

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Revelation 13:6, Revelation 13:6, James 3:6, James 3:6, Exodus 5:2

11Why dost thou turn away thy hand: and thy right hand out of the midst of thy bosom for ever?

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Psalms 75:8, Psalms 75:8

12But God is our king before ages: he hath wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.

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Hosea 7:2, Zephaniah 1:12, Hosea 7:2, Zephaniah 1:12, Job 22:13

13Thou by thy strength didst make the sea firm: thou didst crush the heads of the dragons in the waters.

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Psalms 52:7, Psalms 52:7, Psalms 62:10, Jeremiah 12:1, Jeremiah 12:2

14Thou hast broken the heads of the dragon: thou hast given him to be meat for the people of the Ethiopians.

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Psalms 26:6, Job 34:9, Job 21:15, Psalms 26:6, Job 34:9

15Thou hast broken up the fountains and the torrents: thou hast dried up the Ethan rivers.

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Psalms 94:12, Hebrews 12:5, Psalms 94:12, Hebrews 12:5, Job 7:18

16Thine is the day, and thine is the night: thou hast made the morning light and the sun.

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Matthew 18:6, Matthew 18:7, Malachi 2:8, Matthew 18:6, Matthew 18:7

17Thou hast made all the borders of the earth: the summer and the spring were formed by thee.

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Ecclesiastes 8:17, Ecclesiastes 8:17, Psalms 36:6, John 16:18, John 16:19

18Remember this, the enemy hath reproached the Lord: and a foolish people hath provoked thy name.

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Ecclesiastes 8:12, Ecclesiastes 8:13, Luke 12:20, Psalms 27:4, Psalms 77:13

19Deliver not up to beasts the souls that confess to thee: and forget not to the end the souls of thy poor.

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Psalms 35:6, Psalms 35:6, Jeremiah 23:12, Jeremiah 23:12, Deuteronomy 32:35

20Have regard to thy covenant: for they that are the obscure of the earth have been filled with dwellings of iniquity.

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Daniel 5:6, Isaiah 47:11, Proverbs 28:1, Daniel 5:6, Isaiah 47:11

21Let not the humble be turned away with confusion: the poor and needy shall praise thy name.

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Job 20:8, Job 20:8, Psalms 78:65, Psalms 78:65, Isaiah 29:7

22Arise, O God, judge thy own cause: remember thy reproaches with which the foolish man hath reproached thee all the day.

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Psalms 37:7, Psalms 37:7, Job 16:13, Job 16:13, Psalms 73:3

23Forget not the voices of thy enemies: the pride of them that hate thee ascendeth continually.

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Ecclesiastes 3:18, Ecclesiastes 3:18, Psalms 92:6, Psalms 92:6, Psalms 49:10