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¹ A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; Your holy temple they have defiled; They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.² The dead bodies of your slaves they have given to be food to the birds of the heavens, The flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth.³ Their blood they have shed like water round about Jerusalem; And there was none to bury them.⁴ We have become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to those that are round about us.⁵ How long, O Yahweh? will you be angry forever? Shall your jealousy burn like fire?

⁶ Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you, And on the kingdoms that do not call on your name.⁷ For they have devoured Jacob, And laid waste his habitation.⁸ Don't remember against us the iniquities of our forefathers: Let your tender mercies speedily meet us; For we are brought very low.⁹ Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; And deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name's sake.¹⁰ Why should the nations say, Where is their God? Let the avenging of the blood of your slaves which is shed be known among the nations in our sight.¹¹ Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you: According to the greatness of your power, preserve those that are appointed to death;¹² And render to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom Their reproach, with which they have reproached you, O Lord.¹³ So we your people and sheep of your pasture Will give you thanks forever: We will show forth your praise to all generations.