¹A Psalm of Asaph.

O God, the Gentiles have come into your inheritance,

They have defiled your holy temple;

They have made Jerusalem heaps of ruins.

²They have given the corpses of your servants

As food for the birds of the sky,

And the flesh of those under your grace

To the beasts of the earth.

³They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem,

And there is no-one to bury them.

⁴We were a reproach to our neighbours

– Derision and ridicule to those around us.

⁵How long, O Lord, will you constantly be angry,

And will your zeal burn like fire?

⁶Pour out your wrath on the Gentiles

Who have not known you,

And on the kingdoms

Which have not called on your name.

⁷For he has devoured Jacob,

And they have devastated his abode.

⁸Do not call former iniquities to remembrance to our account.

May your mercies go swiftly in front of us,

For we have been very much weakened.

⁹Help us, O God of our salvation,

For the sake of the glory of your name,

And deliver us and atone for our sins,

For your name's sake.

¹⁰Why should the Gentiles say,

“Where is their God?”

Let him be known among the Gentiles in our sight

By vengeance for the blood of your servants

Which has been shed.

¹¹May the prisoner's groan come before you.

According to the greatness of your power,

Preserve those condemned to die.

¹²Pay our neighbours back sevenfold in their bosom

The reproach with which they have reproached you, O Lord^*.

¹³But we, your people and the sheep of your pasture,

Will thank you age-abidingly;

From generation to generation

We will relate your praise.