1God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple.
They have laid Jerusalem [City of peace] in heaps.

2They 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.

3Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem [City of peace]. And there was no one to bury them. ¹⁷³

4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

5How long, Adonai? Will you be angry forever?
Will your jealousy burn like fire?

6Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you; ¹⁷⁴on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name;

7For they have devoured Jacob [Supplanter], and destroyed his homeland.

8Don’t hold the depravities (moral evils) of our forefathers against us. Let your tender rachamim ·merciful loves· speedily meet us,
for we are in desperate need.

9Help us, God of our yesha' ·salvation·, for the kavod ·weighty glory· of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our habitual sins ·missing the marks·, for your name’s sake.

10Why 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.

11Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.

12Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

13So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will yadah ·extend hands in thankful praise· to you forever.
We will tehilah ·praise song· you forever, to all generations.