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¹ God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance,
desecrated Your holy temple,
and turned Jerusalem into ruins.^(b)
2 They gave the corpses of Your servants
to the birds of the sky for food,
the flesh of Your godly ones
to the beasts of the earth.^(c)
3 They poured out their blood
like water all around Jerusalem,
and there was no one to bury them.^(d)
4 We have become an object of reproach
to our neighbors,
a source of mockery and ridicule
to those around us.^(e)

⁵ How long, Yahweh? Will You be angry forever?
Will Your jealousy keep burning like fire?^(f)
6 Pour out Your wrath on the nations
that don't acknowledge You,
on the kingdoms that don't call on Your name,^(g)
7 for they have devoured Jacob
and devastated his homeland.^(h)
8 Do not hold past sins^[a] against us;
let Your compassion come to us quickly,
for we have become weak.⁽ⁱ⁾

⁹ God of our salvation, help us^(j)—
for the glory of Your name.
Deliver us and atone for^[b] our sins,
because of Your name.^(k)
10 Why should the nations ask,
"Where is their God?"^(l)
Before our eyes,
let vengeance for the shed blood of Your servants
be known among the nations.^(m)
11 Let the groans of the prisoners reach You;
according to Your great power,
preserve those condemned to die.⁽ⁿ⁾

¹² Pay back sevenfold to our neighbors^(o)
the reproach they have hurled at You, Lord.^(p)
13 Then we, Your people, the sheep of Your pasture,^(q)
will thank You forever;
we will declare Your praise
to generation after generation.^(r)