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I remember God, and am disquieted: I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah

Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah

Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: Who is a great god like unto God?

Thou art the God that doest wonders: Thou hast made known thy strength among the peoples.

The waters saw thee, O God; The waters saw thee, they were afraid: The depths also trembled.

That they might set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep his commandments,

And might not be as their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that set not their heart aright, And whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

They kept not the covenant of God, And refused to walk in his law;

And they tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire.

Yea, they spake against God; They said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

Because they believed not in God, And trusted not in his salvation.

When the anger of God went up against them, And slew of the fattest of them, And smote down the young men of Israel.

When he slew them, then they inquired after him; And they returned and sought God earnestly.

And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their redeemer.

And they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies;

When God heard this, he was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel;

A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance; Thy holy temple have they defiled; They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name; And deliver us, and forgive our sins, for thy name's sake.

Wherefore should the nations say, Where is their God? Let the avenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed Be known among the nations in our sight.