| 1 | God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps. |
| 2 | They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth. |
| 3 | Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them. |
| 4 | We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us. |
| 5 | How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire? |
| 6 | Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you; on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name; |
| 7 | For they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland. |
| 8 | Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need. |
| 9 | Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake. |
| 10 | Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out. |
| 11 | Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death. |
| 12 | Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord. |
| 13 | So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations. |
