1 God, the nations have come into your inheritance.

They have defiled your holy temple.

They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

2 They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky,

the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.

3 They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem.

There was no one to bury them.

4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors,

a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

5 How long, Yahweh?

Will you be angry forever?

Will your jealousy burn like fire?

6 Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you,

on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name,

7 for they have devoured Jacob,

and destroyed his homeland.

8 Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us.

Let your tender mercies speedily meet us,

for we are in desperate need.

9 Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name.

Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.

10 Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?"

Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes,

that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.

11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you.

According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.

12 Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom

their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

13 So we, your people and sheep of your pasture,

will give you thanks forever.

We will praise you forever, to all generations.

1 'n Psalm van Asaf. o God, heidene het gekom in u erfdeel, hulle het u heilige tempel verontreinig, Jerusalem tot puinhope gemaak.

2 Hulle het die lyke van u knegte aan die voëls van die hemel tot spys gegee, die vlees van u gunsgenote aan die wilde diere van die land.

3 Hulle het hulle bloed rondom Jerusalem soos water uitgegiet sonder dat iemand hulle begrawe.

4 Ons het vir ons bure 'n smaad geword, 'n spot en beskimping vir die wat rondom ons is.

5 Hoe lank, HERE, sal U vir ewig toornig wees, sal u ywer brand soos 'n vuur?

6 Stort u grimmigheid uit oor die heidene wat U nie ken nie, en oor die koninkryke wat u Naam nie aanroep nie.

7 Want hulle het Jakob verteer en sy woning verwoes.

8 Reken ons die ongeregtighede van die voorvaders nie toe nie; laat u barmhartighede ons gou tegemoetkom, want ons is baie swak.

9 Help ons, o God van ons heil, om die eer van u Naam, en red ons en doen versoening oor ons sondes ter wille van u Naam.

10 Waarom sou die heidene sê: Waar is hulle God? Laat voor ons oë onder die heidene bekend word die wraak oor die vergote bloed van u knegte.

11 Laat die gesug van die gevangene voor u aangesig kom; laat die kinders van die dood oorbly na die grootheid van u arm.

12 En vergeld ons bure sewevoudig in hulle skoot die smaad waarmee hulle U, o Here, gesmaad het.

13 En ons, u volk en die skape van u weide, ons sal U vir ewig loof, van geslag tot geslag sal ons u lof vertel.