Remember thy congregation, [which] thou hast purchased of old the rod of thine inheritance, [which] thou hast redeemed this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations they set up their ensigns [for] signs.

But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.

They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

For God [is] my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, [and] gavest him [to be] meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

The day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

Remember this, [that] the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and [that] the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.

When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.

I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

For promotion [cometh] neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

For in the hand of the LORD [there is] a cup, and the wine is red it is full of mixture and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring [them] out, [and] drink [them].

All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off [but] the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.

Thou [art] more glorious [and] excellent than the mountains of prey.

At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.

Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven the earth feared, and was still,

Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.

He shall cut off the spirit of princes: [he is] terrible to the kings of the earth.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth [his] promise fail for evermore?

And I said, This [is] my infirmity: [but I will remember] the years of the right hand of the most High.

I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.

Thou [art] the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.

The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.

The voice of thy thunder [was] in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.

Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:

For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.

But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.

For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.

Greet one another with an holy kiss.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, [be] with you all. Amen. <<[The second [epistle] to the Corinthians was written from Philippi, [a city] of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas.]>>