| 1. A song of Asaph. O God! Nations have come into Your heritage, they have defiled Your Holy Temple, they have made Jerusalem into heaps. |
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| 2. They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the heaven, the flesh of Your pious ones to the beasts of the earth. |
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| 3. They have spilt their blood like water around Jerusalem, and no one buries [them]. |
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| 4. We were a disgrace to our neighbors, ridicule and derision to those around us. |
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| 5. How long, O Lord? Will You be wroth forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire? |
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| 6. Pour out Your wrath upon the nations that do not know You and upon the kingdoms that did not call out in Your name. |
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| 7. For they devoured Jacob and made his dwelling desolate. |
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| 8. Do not remember for us the early iniquities; may Your mercies quickly come before us for we have become very poor. |
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| 9. Help us, O God of our salvation, on account of the glory of Your name, and save us and atone for our sins for Your name's sake. |
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| 10. Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let it be known among the nations before our eyes the revenge of the spilt blood of Your servants. |
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| 11. May the cry of the prisoner come before You; according to the greatness of Your arm, set free the children of the mother who died. |
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| 12. And return to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom, their reproach with which they reproached You, O Lord. |
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| 13. But we, Your people and the flock of Your pasture, shall thank You forever; to all generations we shall recite Your praise. |
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