₁O God, the heathen have invaded your land.

They have desecrated your holy Temple

and left Jerusalem in ruins.

₂They left the bodies of your people for the vultures,

the bodies of your servants for wild animals to eat.

₃They shed your people's blood like water;

blood flowed like water all through Jerusalem,

and no one was left to bury the dead.

₄The surrounding nations insult us;

they laugh at us and mock us.

₅LORD, will you be angry with us for ever?

Will your anger continue to burn like fire?

₆Turn your anger on the nations that do not worship you,

on the people who do not pray to you.

₇For they have killed your people;

they have ruined your country.

₈Do not punish us for the sins of our ancestors.

Have mercy on us now;

we have lost all hope.

₉Help us, O God, and save us;

rescue us and forgive our sins

for the sake of your own honour.