1. O God, the nations have entered your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have reduced Jerusalem to ruins.
2. They have given the bodies of your servants as food for the birds of the heavens, the flesh of your faithful to the beasts of the earth.
3. They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.
4. We have become a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around us.