1 The nations have come into your inheritance, God!They’ve defiled your holy temple.They’ve made Jerusalem a bunch of ruins.
2 They’ve left your servants’ bodiesas food for the birds;they’ve left the flesh of your faithfulto the wild animals of the earth.
3 They’ve poured out the blood of the faithfullike water all around Jerusalem,and there’s no one left to bury them.
4 We’ve become a joke to our neighbors,nothing but objects of ridiculeand disapproval to those around us.
5 How long will you rage, Lord? Forever?How long will your anger burn like fire?
6 Pour out your wrath on the nationswho don’t know you,on the kingdomsthat haven’t called on your name.
7 They’ve devoured Jacoband demolished his pasture.
8 Don’t remember the iniquities of past generations;let your compassion hurry to meet usbecause we’ve been brought so low.
9 God of our salvation, help usfor the glory of your name!Deliver us and cover our sinsfor the sake of your name!
10 Why should the nations say,"Where’s their God now?"Let vengeance for the spilled blood of your servantsbe known among the nations before our very eyes!
11 Let the prisoners’ groaning reach you.With your powerful armspare those who are destined to die.
12 Pay back our neighbors seven times over,right where it hurts,for the insults they used on you, Lord.
13 We are, after all, your peopleand the sheep of your very own pasture.We will give you thanks forever;we will proclaim your praisesfrom one generation to the next.