How long, O God, is the foe to scoff? Is the enemy to revile your name forever?
Remember, O Lord, how your servants are mocked, and how I bear in my heart the insults of all the many nations, with which your enemies mock, O Lord, with which they mock the footsteps of your anointed.
They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”
And someone said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream, “How long shall it be till the end of these wonders?”
How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?
Return sevenfold into the lap of our neighbors the taunts with which they have taunted you, O Lord!
We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those around us. How long, O Lord? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
at the sound of the taunter and reviler, at the sight of the enemy and the avenger.
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
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