¹ God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

² They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.

³ Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

⁴ We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

⁵ How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

⁶ Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you; on the kingdoms that don't call on your name;

⁷ For they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.

⁸ Don't hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.

⁹ Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name's sake.

¹⁰ Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants' blood is being poured out.

¹¹ Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.

¹² Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

¹³ So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Lilies of the Covenant." A Psalm by Asaph.

¹ Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine forth.

² Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us!

³ Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

⁴ Yahweh God of Armies, How long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

⁵ You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

⁶ You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.

⁷ Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

⁸ You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.

⁹ You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land.

¹⁰ The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God's cedars.

¹¹ It sent out its branches to the sea, Its shoots to the River.

¹² Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?

¹³ The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.

¹⁴ Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,

¹⁵ the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself.

¹⁶ It's burned with fire. It's cut down. They perish at your rebuke.

¹⁷ Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.

¹⁸ So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.

¹⁹ Turn us again, Yahweh God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved. For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. By Asaph.

¹ Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!

² Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.

³ Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.

⁴ For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

⁵ He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn't know.

⁶ "I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.

⁷ You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah." Selah.

⁸ "Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me!

⁹ There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.

¹⁰ I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

¹¹ But my people didn't listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

¹² So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

¹³ Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

¹⁴ I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.

¹⁵ The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.

¹⁶ But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock." A Psalm by Asaph.

¹ God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.

² "How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?" Selah.

³ "Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

⁴ Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked."

⁵ They don't know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

⁶ I said, "You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.

⁷ Nevertheless you shall die like men, and fall like one of the rulers."

⁸ Arise, God, judge the earth, for you inherit all of the nations. A song. A Psalm by Asaph.