Keep in mind your band of worshippers, for whom you gave payment in the days which are past, whom you took for yourself as the people of your heritage even this mountain of Zion, which has been your resting-place.

Sending out their voices like lions among your worshippers they have put up their signs to be seen.

Your doors are broken down with hammers and iron blades.

They have said in their hearts, Let us put an end to them all together they have given over to the fire all God's places of worship in the land.

O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?

For from the past God is my King, working salvation in the earth.

The heads of the great snake were crushed by you you gave them as food to the fishes of the sea.

The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun.

Keep this in mind, O Lord, that your haters have said cruel things, and that your name has been looked down on by a people of evil behaviour.

Keep in mind your undertaking for the dark places of the earth are full of pride and cruel acts.

Up! O God, be the judge of your cause keep in mind the bitter things which the man of evil behaviour says against you every day.

When the right time has come, I will be the judge in righteousness.

I say to the men of pride, Let your pride be gone: and to the sinners, Let not your horn be lifted up.

For honour does not come from the east, or from the west, or uplifting from the south

For in the hand of the Lord is a cup, and the wine is red it is well mixed, overflowing from his hand: he will make all the sinners of the earth take of it, even to the last drop.

By him will all the horns of the sinners be cut off but the horns of the upright will be lifted up.

In Salem is his tent, his resting-place in Zion.

You are shining and full of glory, more than the eternal mountains.

At the voice of your wrath, O God of Jacob, deep sleep has overcome carriage and horse.

From heaven you gave your decision the earth, in its fear, gave no sound,

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He puts an end to the wrath of rulers he is feared by the kings of the earth.

In the day of my trouble, my heart was turned to the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night without resting my soul would not be comforted.

You keep my eyes from sleep I am so troubled that no words come.

The memory of my song comes back to me in the night my thoughts are moving in my heart my spirit is searching with care.

Is his mercy quite gone for ever? has his word come to nothing?

And I said, It is a weight on my spirit but I will keep in mind the years of the right hand of the Most High.

I will give thought to all your work, while my mind goes over your acts of power.

You are the God who does works of power: you have made your strength clear to the nations.

The waters saw you, O God the waters saw you, they were in fear: even the deep was troubled.

The voice of your thunder went rolling on the world was flaming with the light of the storm the earth was shaking.

You were guiding your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

I said before, and still say it before I come, as being present for the second time, though I am still away from you, to those who have done wrong before, and to all the others, that if I come again I will not have pity

For he was feeble in that he was put to death on the cross, but he is living by the power of God. And we are feeble in him, but we will be living with him through the power of God in relation to you.

But it is my hope that you will have no doubt that we are truly Christ's.

Because we are able to do nothing against what is true, but only for it.

For this cause I am writing these things while I am away, so that there may be need for me, when I am present, to make use of sharp measures, by the authority which the Lord has given me for building up and not for destruction.

Give one another a holy kiss.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the harmony of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.