1. A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the Gentiles have entered into your inheritance; they have polluted your holy temple. They have set Jerusalem as a place to tend fruit trees.
2. They have placed the dead bodies of your servants as food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints for the beasts of the earth.
3. They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one who would bury them.
4. We have become a disgrace to our neighbors, an object of ridicule and mockery to those who are around us.
5. How long, O Lord? Will you be angry until the end? Will your zeal be kindled like a fire?
6. Pour out your wrath among the Gentiles, who have not known you, and upon the kingdoms that have not invoked your name.
7. For they have devoured Jacob, and they have desolated his place.
8. Do not remember our iniquities of the past. May your mercies quickly intercept us, for we have become exceedingly poor.
9. Help us, O God, our Savior. And free us, Lord, for the glory of your name. And forgive us our sins for the sake of your name.