1God, the nations have come into your inheritance.
2They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky,
3They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem.
4We have become a reproach to our neighbours,
5How long, LORD?
6Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you,
7for they have devoured Jacob,
8Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us.
9Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name.
10Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
11Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you.
12Pay back to our neighbours seven times into their bosom
13So we, your people and sheep of your pasture,