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- {A Psalm of Asaph.}
O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance: thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
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- The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowl of the heavens, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth:
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- Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury [them].
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- We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision to them that are round about us.
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- How long, O Jehovah?
wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
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- Pour out thy fury upon the nations that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name:
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- For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.
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- Remember not against us the iniquities of [our] forefathers;
let thy tender mercies speedily come to meet us: for we are brought very low.
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- Help us, O God of our salvation, because of the glory of thy name;
and deliver us, and forgive our sins, for thy name's sake.
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- Wherefore should the nations say, Where is their God?
Let the avenging of the blood of thy servants that is shed be known among the nations in our sight.
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- Let the groaning of the prisoner come before thee;
according to the greatness of thine arm, preserve those that are appointed to die;
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- And render unto our neighbours, sevenfold into their bosom, their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
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- And we, thy people and the sheep of thy pasture, will give thanks unto thee for ever;
we will shew forth thy praise from generation to generation.
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