1 A Psalm of Asaph. The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble. | TOSK |
2 They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth. | TOSK |
3 They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead. | TOSK |
4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us. | TOSK |
5 How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire? | TOSK |
6 Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name, | IP | TOSK |
7 for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland. | IP | TOSK |
8 Do not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come quickly, for we are brought low. | TOSK |
9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; deliver us and atone for our sins, for the sake of Your name. | TOSK |
10 Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants. | TOSK |
11 May the groans of the captives reach You; by the strength of Your arm preserve those condemned to death. | TOSK |
12 Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord. | TOSK |
13 Then we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, will thank You forever; from generation to generation we will declare Your praise. | TOSK |