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¹God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

²They 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.

³Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

⁴We have become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

⁵How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

⁶Pour out your wrath on the nations that don`t know you; On the kingdoms that don`t call on your names;

⁷For they have devoured Jacob, And destroyed his homeland.

⁸Don`t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, For we are in desperate need.

⁹Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name`s sake.