^{1 Ref} > God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

^{2 Ref} 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 Ref} Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

^{4 Ref} We have become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

^{5 Ref} How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

^{6 Ref} Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you; On the kingdoms that don't call on your name;

^{7 Ref} For they have devoured Jacob, And destroyed his homeland.

^{8 Ref} Don't hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, For we are in desperate need.