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^1 (a)O God, the heathen have invaded your land.
    They have desecrated your holy Temple
    and left Jerusalem in ruins.
² They left the bodies of your people for the vultures,
    the bodies of your servants for wild animals to eat.
³ They shed your people's blood like water;
    blood flowed like water all through Jerusalem,
    and no one was left to bury the dead.
⁴ The surrounding nations insult us;
    they laugh at us and mock us.

⁵ Lord, will you be angry with us forever?
    Will your anger continue to burn like fire?
⁶ Turn your anger on the nations that do not worship you,
    on the people who do not pray to you.
⁷ For they have killed your people;
    they have ruined your country.

⁸ Do not punish us for the sins of our ancestors.
    Have mercy on us now;
    we have lost all hope.
⁹ Help us, O God, and save us;
    rescue us and forgive our sins
    for the sake of your own honor.
¹⁰ Why should the nations ask us,
    "Where is your God?"
Let us see you punish the nations
    for shedding the blood of your servants.

¹¹ Listen to the groans of the prisoners,
    and by your great power free those who are condemned to die.
¹² Lord, pay the other nations back seven times
    for all the insults they have hurled at you.
¹³ Then we, your people, the sheep of your flock,
    will thank you forever
    and praise you for all time to come.