1. A maskil of Asaph.Why, God, have you cast us off forever?Why does your anger burn against the sheep of your pasture?
2. Remember your people, whom you acquired of old,the tribe you redeemed as your own heritage,Mount Zion where you dwell.
3. Direct your steps toward the utter destruction,everything the enemy laid waste in the sanctuary.
4. Your foes roared triumphantly in the place of your assembly;they set up their own tokens of victory.
5. They hacked away like a forester gathering boughs,swinging his ax in a thicket of trees.