A Psalm by Asaph.
God, the nations have come into your inheritance. 2Ch 36:19Lam 1:10Mic 3:12Psa 74:1-4Jer 26:18Psa 74:7-82Ch 36:172Ch 36:3-4
They have defiled your holy temple.
They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, Jer 7:33Jer 34:20Jer 16:4Deu 28:26Jer 19:7Jer 15:3
the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.
They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. Jer 14:16Jer 16:4Rev 11:9Jer 15:3Jer 25:33Jer 34:20Jer 8:1-2Mat 23:35
There was no one to bury them.
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, Psa 80:6Ezk 36:15Lam 5:1Psa 89:411Ki 9:7Dan 9:16Deu 28:37Ezk 35:12
a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
How long, LORD? Psa 89:46Psa 74:1Psa 85:5Deu 29:20Zep 3:8Ezk 36:5Psa 13:1-2Psa 74:9-10
Will you be angry forever?
Will your jealousy burn like fire?
Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, Jer 10:252Th 1:8Psa 14:4Psa 53:4Psa 69:24Isa 45:4-5Rom 1:28Act 17:23
on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name,
for they have devoured Jacob, Jer 51:34-35Zec 1:15Isa 24:1-12Isa 64:10-11Jer 50:72Ch 36:21Psa 80:13Isa 9:12
and destroyed his homeland.
Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Isa 64:9Psa 116:6Psa 142:6Rev 18:5Psa 21:3Hos 9:9Mat 23:32-361Ki 17:18
Let your tender mercies speedily meet us,
for we are in desperate need.
Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Jer 14:72Ch 14:11Psa 25:11Jer 14:21Ezk 20:14Isa 48:9Dan 9:19Ezk 20:9
Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.
Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Psa 42:10Exo 6:7Exo 7:5Ezk 39:21-22Mic 7:10Psa 115:2Psa 42:3Psa 94:1
Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes,
that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.
Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. Psa 102:20Isa 42:7Isa 33:2Psa 146:6-7Exo 2:23-24Psa 12:5Psa 69:33Eph 3:20
According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.
Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom Gen 4:15Jer 32:18Lev 26:21Lev 26:28Pro 6:31Psa 74:18-22Luk 6:38Isa 65:5-7
their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, Isa 43:21Psa 95:7Psa 100:3Psa 74:1Psa 145:4Psa 44:8Psa 45:17Psa 74:18
will give you thanks forever.
We will praise you forever, to all generations.