1. God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance,desecrated Your holy temple,and turned Jerusalem into ruins.
2. They gave the corpses of Your servantsto the birds of the sky for food,the flesh of Your godly onesto the beasts of the earth.
3. They poured out their bloodlike water all around Jerusalem,and there was no one to bury them.
4. We have become an object of reproachto our neighbors,a source of mockery and ridiculeto those around us.
5. How long, Yahweh? Will You be angry forever?Will Your jealousy keep burning like fire?
6. Pour out Your wrath on the nationsthat don’t acknowledge You,on the kingdoms that don’t call on Your name,
7. for they have devoured Jacoband devastated his homeland.
8. Do not hold past sins against us;let Your compassion come to us quickly,for we have become weak.
9. God of our salvation, help us —for the glory of Your name.Deliver us and atone for our sins,because of Your name.
10. Why should the nations ask,“Where is their God? ” Before our eyes,let vengeance for the shed blood of Your servantsbe known among the nations.
11. Let the groans of the prisoners reach You;according to Your great power,preserve those condemned to die.
12. Pay back sevenfold to our neighbors the reproach they have hurled at You, Lord.
13. Then we, Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, will thank You forever;we will declare Your praiseto generation after generation.