1 A Psalm. Of Asaph. O God, the nations have come into your heritage; they have made your holy Temple unclean; they have made Jerusalem a mass of broken walls.2 They have given the bodies of your servants as food to the birds of the air, and the flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth.3 Their blood has been flowing like water round about Jerusalem; there was no one to put them in their last resting-place.4 We are looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and made sport of by those who are round us.5 How long, O Lord? will you be angry for ever? will your wrath go on burning like fire?6 Let your wrath be on the nations who have no knowledge of you, and on the kingdoms who have not made prayer to your name.7 For they have taken Jacob for their meat, and made waste his house.8 Do not keep in mind against us the sins of our fathers; let your mercy come to us quickly, for we have been made very low.9 Give us help, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; take us out of danger and give us forgiveness for our sins, because of your name.10 Why may the nations say, Where is their God? Let payment for the blood of your servants be made openly among the nations before our eyes.11 Let the cry of the prisoner come before you; with your strong arm make free the children of death;12 And give punishment seven times over into the breast of our neighbours for the bitter words which they have said against you, O Lord.13 So we your people, and the sheep of your flock, will give you glory for ever: we will go on praising you through all generations.

1 In finem, pro iis qui commutabuntur. Testimonium Asaph, psalmus. 2 [Qui regis Isral, intende ;qui deducis velut ovem Joseph.Qui sedes super cherubim, manifestare3 coram Ephraim, Benjamin, et Manasse.Excita potentiam tuam, et veni,ut salvos facias nos.4 Deus, converte nos, et ostende faciem tuam,et salvi erimus.5 Domine Deus virtutum,quousque irasceris super orationem servi tui ?6 cibabis nos pane lacrimarum,et potum dabis nobis in lacrimis in mensura ?7 Posuisti nos in contradictionem vicinis nostris,et inimici nostri subsannaverunt nos.8 Deus virtutum, converte nos, et ostende faciem tuam,et salvi erimus.9 Vineam de gypto transtulisti :ejecisti gentes, et plantasti eam.10 Dux itineris fuisti in conspectu ejus ;plantasti radices ejus, et implevit terram.11 Operuit montes umbra ejus,et arbusta ejus cedros Dei.12 Extendit palmites suos usque ad mare,et usque ad flumen propagines ejus.13 Ut quid destruxisti maceriam ejus,et vindemiant eam omnes qui prtergrediuntur viam ?14 Exterminavit eam aper de silva,et singularis ferus depastus est eam.15 Deus virtutum, convertere,respice de clo, et vide,et visita vineam istam :16 et perfice eam quam plantavit dextera tua,et super filium hominis quem confirmasti tibi.17 Incensa igni et suffossa,ab increpatione vultus tui peribunt.18 Fiat manus tua super virum dexter tu,et super filium hominis quem confirmasti tibi.19 Et non discedimus a te :vivificabis nos, et nomen tuum invocabimus.20 Domine Deus virtutum, converte nos, et ostende faciem tuam,et salvi erimus.]