12. Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
13. You did divide the [Red] Sea by Your might; You broke the heads of the [Egyptian] dragons in the waters. [Exod. 14:21.]
14. You crushed the heads of Leviathan (Egypt); You did give him as food for the creatures inhabiting the wilderness.
15. You did cleave open [the rock bringing forth] fountains and streams; You dried up mighty, ever-flowing rivers (the Jordan). [Exod. 17:6; Num. 20:11; Josh. 3:13.]
16. The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have established the [starry] light and the sun.
17. You have fixed all the borders of the earth [the divisions of land and sea and of the nations]; You have made summer and winter. [Acts17:26.]
18. [Earnestly] remember how the enemy has scoffed, O Lord, and reproached You, and how a foolish and impious people has blasphemed Your name.
19. Oh, do not deliver the life of your turtledove to the wild beast (to the greedy multitude); forget not the life [of the multitude] of Your poor forever.
20. Have regard for the covenant [You made with Abraham], for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
21. Oh, let not the downtrodden return in shame; let the oppressed and needy praise Your name.
22. Arise, O God, plead Your own cause; remember [earnestly] how the foolish and impious man scoffs and reproaches You day after day and all day long.