4. Your enemies have roared in the midst of your meeting place; they have set up their signs for signs.
5. They are known to be like those who wield axes in a thicket of trees.
6. And now its carved works altogether they have smashed with axe and hammer.
7. They have set fire to your sanctuary. They have defiled to the ground, the dwelling place for your name.
8. They have said in their heart, “We will completely oppress them.” They burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
9. We do not see our signs, and there is no longer a prophet. No one with us knows how long.
10. How long, O God, will the adversary taunt? Will the enemy treat your name with contempt forever?
11. Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it from your bosom; destroy them!
12. But God has been my king from long ago, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
13. You split open the sea by your strength; You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
14. You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food to the desert dwelling creatures.
15. You split open spring and wadi. You dried up ever-flowing rivers.
16. Yours is the day, yours is the night also. You established light and the sun.
17. You defined all the boundaries of the earth; Summer and winter—you formed them.