| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1A psalm of Asaph. God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance, desecrated Your holy temple, and turned Jerusalem into ruins. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2They gave the corpses of Your servants to the birds of the sky for food, the flesh of Your godly ones to the beasts of the earth. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3They 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 an object of reproach to our neighbors, a source of mockery and ridicule to those around us. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5How long, Yahweh? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy keep burning like fire? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Pour out Your wrath on the nations that don't acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that don't call on Your name, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Do not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come to us quickly, for we have become weak. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9God of our salvation, help us-- for the glory of Your name. Deliver us and atone for our sins, because of Your name. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Why should the nations ask," Where is their God?" Before our eyes, let vengeance for the shed blood of Your servants be known among the nations. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Let the groans of the prisoners reach You; according to Your great power, preserve those condemned to die. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Pay back sevenfold to our neighbors the reproach they have hurled at You, Lord. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Then we, Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, will thank You forever; we will declare Your praise to generation after generation. |
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