1A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the nations have come into Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in heaps. 2They have given the dead bodies of Your servants [as] food for the birds of the heavens, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth. 3They have shed their blood like water round about Jerusalem, and none to bury. 4We have become a shame to our neighbors, a scorn and mockery to those who are around us. 5How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Shall Your jealousy burn like fire? 6Pour out Your wrath on the nations who have not known You, and on the kingdoms who have not called on Your name. 7For [they have] eaten up Jacob, and wasted his dwelling-place. 8O do not remember against us our former sins; let Your tender mercies meet us quickly; for we are brought very low. 9Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; and deliver us, and atone for our sins, for Your name's sake. 10Why should the nations say, Where [is] their God? Let Him be known among the nations before our eyes [by] the revenging of the blood of Your servants [which is] shed. 11Let the groaning of the prisoner come before You; according to the greatness of Your power, leave a remnant of those who are to die, 12and give to our neighbors their curse sevenfold into their bosom, the curse with which they have cursed You, O Lord. 13Then we, Your people and sheep of Your pasture, will give You thanks forever; we will show forth Your praise to all generations.