Remember this: the enemy has reproached יהוה, And a foolish people has despised Your Name.
“Deliver me from all my transgressions; Do not make me the reproach of the foolish.
And the great city became divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And great Baḇ
“Do you do this to יהוה, O foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father, who bought you, Who created you and established you?
“But I acted for My Name’s sake, not to profane it before the gentiles, before whose eyes I had brought them out.
Remember, O יהוה, against the sons of Eḏ
Arise, O Elohim, plead Your own cause, Remember how the foolish man reproaches You daily.
Blessed is he who considers the poor; יהוה does deliver him in a day of evil.
‘If I did not fear the enemy’s taunt, Lest their adversaries misunderstand, Lest they say, “Our hand is high, And יהוה has not done all this.” ’
‘It could be that יהוה your Elohim does hear all the words of the Raḇ
And they spoke against the Elohim of Yerushalayim, as against the mighty ones of the people of the earth, the work of men’s hands.
Remember, O יהוה, what has come upon us. Look, and see our reproach!
“And with your mouth you have boasted against Me and increased your words against Me – I Myself have heard.”