Bilingual reading

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance: Mount Zion, in which you have lived.

Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.

Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.

They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.

Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.

They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.

They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.

We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.

How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it from your chest and consume them!

Yet God is my King of old, working salvation throughout the earth.

You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.

You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.

You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.

The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.

You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.

Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, LORD. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.

Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.

Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.

Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.

Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.

Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.

تعليم. لِآساف. أَللَّهُمَّ، لِماذا لِلأَبَدِ نَبَذتَنا؟ ولِماذا على غَنَمِ مَرْعاكَ ٱشتَعَلَ غَضَبُكَ؟

أُذكُرْ جَماعَتَكَ الَّتي مُنذُ القِدَمِ ٱقتَنَيتَها وسِبْطَ ميراثٍ لَكَ ٱفتَدَيتَها وجَبَلَ صِهيونَ الَّذي فيه سَكَنت

إِرفَعْ خَطَواتِكَ إِلى الأطْلالِ الدَّائمة ففي القُدسِ أَتلَفَ العَدُوُّ كُلَّ شيء

زَمجَرَ خُصومُكَ في وَسَطِ مَجالِسِكَ ورَفَعوا راياتِهم شِعارًا

شوهِدوا، كَمَن يَرفَعُ فأسًا على أَدغالٍ مِنَ الشَّجَر

يُحَطِّمونَ المَنْقوشاتِ جَميعًا بِالفَأسِ والمَطارِق

أَسلَموا إِلى النَّارِ مَقدِسَكَ ودَنَّسوا حتَّى الأَرضَ مَسكِنَ ٱسمِكَ

قالوا في قُلوبِهم: «لِنَسحَقْهم بِضَربَةٍ قاضِيَة» وأَحرَقوا في الأَرضِ مَجالِسَ اللهِ جَميعًا

آياتُنا لم نَعُدْ نَراها ولم يَبقَ نَبِيٌّ ولَيسَ عِندَنا مَن يَعلَمُ إِلى مَتى

أَللَّهُمَّ إِلى مَتى يُعَيِّرُنا المُضايِق وبِٱسمِكَ يَستَهينُ العَدُوُّ على الدَّوام؟

لِماذا تَكُفُّ يَدَكَ وتَبْقى مُحتَضِنًا يَمينَكَ؟

على أَنَّكَ مَلِكي مُنذُ القِدَم وصانِعُ الخَلاصِ في وَسَطِ الأَرض

أَنتَ شَقَقتَ البَحرَ بِعِزَّتِكَ وحَطَّمتَ على المِياه رُؤُوسَ التَّنانين

أَنتَ هَشَّمتَ رُؤُوسَ لَوياثان وأَعطَيتَه لِلوُحوشِ مأكَلًا

أَنتَ فَجَّرتَ عَينًا وسَيلًا أَنتَ جَفَّفتَ أَنهارًا لا تَجِفُّ مِياهُها

لَكَ النَّهارُ ولَكَ اللَّيل أَنتَ أَحكَمتَ الشَّمسَ والنُّور

أَنتَ وَضَعتَ حُدودَ الأَرضِ جَميعَها وصَنَعتَ الصَّيفَ والشِّتاء

أُذكُرْ يا رَبُّ أَنَّ العَدُوَّ يُجَدِّف وشَعبًا جاهِلًا ٱستَهانَ بِٱسمِكَ

لا تُسلِمْ إِلى الوَحشِ نَفْسَ يَمَامَتِكَ ولا تَنْسَ على الدَّوامِ حَياةَ بائِسيكَ

أُنظُرْ إِلى العَهدِ فقدِ ٱمتَلأَت مَخابِئُ الأَرضِ ومآوي العُنْف

لا يَرجِعَنَّ المَظلُومُ مَخزِيًّا ولْيُسَبِّحْ لِٱسمِكَ البائسُ المِسْكين

أَللَّهُمَّ قُمْ ودافِعْ عن قَضِيَّتِكَ وٱذكُرْ تَجْديفَ الجاهِلِ طَوالَ النَّهارِ علَيكَ

لا تَنْسَ ضَجيجَ خُصومِكَ ولا الجَلَبَةَ المُرتَفِعةَ على الدَّوامِ في مُقاوِميكَ