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How Long, O Lord?
A Psalm of Asaph.
O God, the nations have come into your inheritance;
they have defiled your holy temple;
they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
A Psalm of Asaph.
O God, the nations have come into your inheritance;
they have defiled your holy temple;
they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
How Long, O Lord?
{A Psalm of Asaph.} O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
{A Psalm of Asaph.} O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
They 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.
to the birds of the heavens for food,
the flesh of your faithful to the beasts of the earth.
The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
They have poured out their blood like water
all around Jerusalem,
and there was no one to bury them.
all around Jerusalem,
and there was no one to bury them.
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
We have become a taunt to our neighbors,
mocked and derided by those around us.
mocked and derided by those around us.
We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
How long, O Lord? Will you be angry forever?
Will your jealousy burn like fire?
Will your jealousy burn like fire?
How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
Pour out your anger on the nations
that do not know you,
and on the kingdoms
that do not call upon your name!
that do not know you,
and on the kingdoms
that do not call upon your name!
Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
For they have devoured Jacob
and laid waste his habitation.
and laid waste his habitation.
For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
Help us, O God of our salvation,
for the glory of your name;
deliver us, and atone for our sins,
for your name’s sake!
for the glory of your name;
deliver us, and atone for our sins,
for your name’s sake!
Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.
Why 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!
“Where is their God?”
Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants
be known among the nations before our eyes!
Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
Let the groans of the prisoners come before you;
according to your great power, preserve those doomed to die!
according to your great power, preserve those doomed to die!
Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;
Return sevenfold into the lap of our neighbors
the taunts with which they have taunted you, O Lord!
the taunts with which they have taunted you, O Lord!
And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.