1. God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance,desecrated Your holy temple,and turned Jerusalem into ruins.
2. They gave the corpses of Your servantsto the birds of the sky for food,the flesh of Your godly onesto the beasts of the earth.
3. They poured out their bloodlike water all around Jerusalem,and there was no one to bury them.
4. We have become an object of reproachto our neighbors,a source of mockery and ridiculeto those around us.
5. How long, Yahweh? Will You be angry forever?Will Your jealousy keep burning like fire?
6. Pour out Your wrath on the nationsthat don’t acknowledge You,on the kingdoms that don’t call on Your name,
7. for they have devoured Jacoband devastated his homeland.