| 1 | A psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathens are come into thy inheritance, they have defiled thy holy temple: they have made Jerusalem as a place to keep fruit. |
| 2 | They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be meat for the fowls of the air: the flesh of thy saints for the beasts of the earth. |
| 3 | They have poured out their blood as water, round about Jerusalem and there was none to bury them. |
| 4 | We are become a reproach to our neighbours: a scorn and derision to them that are round about us. |
| 5 | How long, O Lord, wilt thou be angry for ever: shall thy zeal be kindled like a fire? |
| 6 | Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that have not known thee: and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name. |
| 7 | Because they have devoured Jacob; and have laid waste his place. |
| 8 | Remember not our former iniquities: let thy mercies speedily prevent us, for we are become exceeding poor. |
| 9 | Help us, O God, our saviour: and for the glory of thy name, O Lord, deliver us: and forgive us our sins for thy name's sake: |
| 10 | Lest they should say among the Gentiles: Where is their God? And let him be made known among the nations before our eyes, By the revenging the blood of thy servants, which hath been shed: |
| 11 | Let the sighing of the prisoners come in before thee. According to the greatness of thy arm, take possession of the children of them that have been put to death. |
| 12 | And render to our neighbours sevenfold in their bosom: the reproach wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord. |
| 13 | But we thy people, and the sheep of thy pasture, will give thanks to thee for ever. We will shew forth thy praise, unto generation and generation. |
