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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2They have given the bodies of your servants to the birds of the heavens for food, the flesh of your faithful to the beasts of the earth. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those around us. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5How long, O LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Pour out your anger on the nations that do not know you, and on the kingdoms that do not call upon your name! |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7For they have devoured Jacob and laid waste his habitation. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Do not remember against us our former iniquities; let your compassion come speedily to meet us, for we are brought very low. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; deliver us, and atone for our sins, for your name’s sake! |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes! |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Let the groans of the prisoners come before you; according to your great power, preserve those doomed to die! |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Return sevenfold into the lap of our neighbors the taunts with which they have taunted you, O Lord! |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13But we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will give thanks to you forever; from generation to generation we will recount your praise. |
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