A Psalm of Asaph.

¹ O God, the nations have come into your inheritance;
   they have defiled your holy temple;
   they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
² They have given the bodies of your servants
   to the birds of the heavens for food,
   the flesh of your faithful to the beasts of the earth.
³ They have poured out their blood like water
   all around Jerusalem,
   and there was no one to bury them.
⁴ We have become a taunt to our neighbors,
   mocked and derided by those around us.

⁵ How long, O LORD? Will you be angry forever?
   Will your jealousy burn like fire?
⁶ Pour out your anger on the nations
   that do not know you,
and on the kingdoms
   that do not call upon your name!
⁷ For they have devoured Jacob
   and laid waste his habitation.

⁸ Do not remember against us our former iniquities;
   let your compassion come speedily to meet us,
   for we are brought very low.
⁹ Help us, O God of our salvation,
   for the glory of your name;
deliver us, and atone for our sins,
   for your name’s sake!
¹⁰ Why should the nations say,
   “Where is their God?”
Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants
   be known among the nations before our eyes!

¹¹ Let the groans of the prisoners come before you;
   according to your great power, preserve those doomed to die!
¹² Return sevenfold into the lap of our neighbors
   the taunts with which they have taunted you, O Lord!
¹³ But we your people, the sheep of your pasture,
   will give thanks to you forever;
   from generation to generation we will recount your praise.