How Long, O Lord?

A Psalm of yAsaph.

¹O God, zthe nations have come into your ainheritance;

they have defiled your bholy temple;

they have claid Jerusalem in ruins.

²They have given dthe bodies of your servants

to the birds of the heavens for food,

the flesh of your efaithful to fthe beasts of the earth.

³They have poured out their blood like water

all around Jerusalem,

and there was gno one to bury them.

⁴We have become ha taunt to our neighbors,

hmocked and derided by those around us.

⁵iHow long, O Lord? Will you be angry jforever?

Will your kjealousy lburn like fire?

⁶mPour out your anger on the nations

that ndo not know you,

and on the kingdoms

that odo not call upon your name!

⁷For they have devoured Jacob

and laid waste his habitation.

⁸pDo not remember against us qour former iniquities;1

let your compassion come speedily to meet us,

for we are rbrought very low.

⁹sHelp us, O God of our salvation,

for the glory of your name;

deliver us, and tatone for our sins,

for your uname's sake!

¹⁰vWhy should the nations say,

“Where is their God?”

Let wthe avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants

be known among the nations before our eyes!

¹¹Let xthe groans of the prisoners come before you;

according to your great power, preserve those ydoomed to die!

¹²Return zsevenfold into the alap of our neighbors

the btaunts with which they have taunted you, O Lord!

¹³But we your people, the csheep of your pasture,

will dgive thanks to you forever;

from generation to generation we will recount your praise.