¹ God, the nations have invaded your possession.
They have profaned your holy temple.
They have reduced Jerusalem to a heap of ruins.
² They have left the corpses of your servants
    as food for the birds of the sky.
They have given the flesh of your favored ones to the wild animals.
³ They have poured out their blood like water all over Jerusalem,
and there is no one to bury them.
⁴ We are subjected to contempt by our neighbors,
to mockery and ridicule by those around us.

⁵ How long, O Lord? Will you stay angry forever?
How long will your jealous anger burn like fire?
⁶ Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge you,
on the kingdoms that do not call on your name,
⁷ because they have devoured Jacob,
and they have destroyed his pastureland. ^[1]
8 Do not charge the guilt of our fathers against us.
Hurry, let your compassion come to meet us,
for we are very weak.
⁹ God, who saves us, help us for the glory of your name.
Deliver us and make atonement for our sins for your name’s sake.
¹⁰ Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
Before our very eyes, display to the nations
    vengeance for the poured-out blood of your servants.
¹¹ May the groaning of the prisoner come before you.
According to the great strength of your arm
    preserve those doomed to death.
¹² Pay back into the laps of our neighbors seven times as much scorn
    as the scorn that they directed at you, Lord.
¹³ Then we your people, the flock of your pasture, will praise you forever.
From generation to generation we will recount your praise.

¹ O Shepherd of Israel, give ear,
you who lead Joseph like a flock.
You who are seated above the cherubim, shine forth.
² Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh,
stir up your might.
Come with salvation for us.

³ God, restore us, and make your face shine,
    so we will be saved.

⁴ Lord God of Armies, how long will your anger smoke
    against the prayer of your people?
⁵ You make them eat bread with tears,
and you make them drink tears by the quart. ^[4]
6 You create strife between us and our neighbors,
so our enemies join together in mocking us.

⁷ God of Armies, restore us, and make your face shine,
    so we will be saved.

⁸ You brought a vine out from Egypt.
You drove out the nations, and you planted it.
⁹ You cleared a place for it,
and it took root and filled the land.
¹⁰ The mountains were covered by its shade,
the cedars of God with its branches.
¹¹ It sent out its boughs to the Sea, ^[5]
its shoots as far as the River. ^[6]

¹² Why have you broken down its walls
so that all who pass by pick its fruit?
¹³ A wild boar from the forest tears it up,
and the wild animals ^[7] feed on it.

¹⁴ God of Armies, return now!
Look down from heaven and see,
and take care of this vine,
¹⁵ the shoot that your right hand has planted,
the son that you made strong for yourself.
¹⁶ It is burned with fire like garbage. ^[8]
Because of the rebuke from your face they perish.
¹⁷ Let your hand rest on the man at your right hand,
on the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself. ^[9]
18 Then we will not turn away from you.
Cause us to live, and we will call on your name.

¹⁹ Lord God of Armies, restore us, and make your face shine,
    so we will be saved.