Verse
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World English Bible
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Berean Standard Bible
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God,
the nations have come
into
your inheritance .
They have defiled your holy temple .
They
have
laid
Jerusalem in
heaps
.
A
Psalm
of
Asaph.
The nations ,
O
God,
have invaded
Your inheritance ;
they have defiled Your holy temple and
reduced
Jerusalem to
rubble
.
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.
They have given the corpses
of Your servants as
food to
the birds of the air
, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts
of the earth.
Their
blood
they have shed
like water around Jerusalem .
There was
no one to bury them
.
They have poured
out
their
blood
like water all
around Jerusalem ,
and
there is
no one to bury the
dead
.
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing
and derision to those who
are
around us.
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn
and derision to those around us.
How long, Yahweh
? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
How long, O
LORD
? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't
know
you ;
On the kingdoms that don't
call on your name ;
Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do
not
acknowledge
You ,
on the kingdoms that refuse
to
call on Your name ,
For they have devoured Jacob ,
And destroyed
his homeland.
for they have devoured Jacob and devastated
his homeland.
Don't
hold the
iniquities
of
our
forefathers
against us .
Let your tender
mercies
speedily
meet
us
, For we are in
desperate
need
.
Do
not
hold past
sins
against us ;
let Your compassion
come
quickly
, for we are brought
low
.
Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name .
Deliver us ,
and forgive
our sins, for your
name's
sake.
Help us, O
God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name ;
deliver us and atone
for
our sins, for the
sake of
Your
name
.
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
.
Why should the nations ask
, “
Where is their God? ”
Before our eyes, make
known
among
the
nations
Your
vengeance for the
bloodshed
of
Your servants.
Let
the sighing
of the prisoner
come
before
you .
According
to
the greatness
of your power,
preserve those who
are
sentenced
to death ;
May
the groans
of the captives
reach
You ;
by
the strength
of Your arm
preserve those condemned
to death .
Pay back to
our neighbors seven
times
into
their
bosom
Their
reproach with
which
they have
reproached
you, Lord.
Pay back into
the
laps
of
our neighbors sevenfold
the
reproach they hurled
at
You, O
Lord.
So
we ,
your people and
sheep of your pasture, Will give
you thanks
forever .
We will praise you
forever,
to
all
generations
.
Then
we Your people ,
the
sheep of Your pasture, will thank
You forever ;
from
generation
to
generation
we will declare
Your
praise.
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