The Message Bible MSG
World English Bible WEB
1 God! Barbarians have broken into your home, violated your holy temple, left Jerusalem a pile of rubble!
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<<A Psalm by Asaph.>> God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
2 They've served up the corpses of your servants as carrion food for birds of prey, Threw the bones of your holy people out to the wild animals to gnaw on.
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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 They dumped out their blood like buckets of water. All around Jerusalem, their bodies were left to rot, unburied.
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Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.
4 We're nothing but a joke to our neighbors, graffiti scrawled on the city walls.
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We have become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
5 How long do we have to put up with this, God? Do you have it in for us for good? Will your smoldering rage never cool down?
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How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
6 If you're going to be angry, be angry with the pagans who care nothing about you, or your rival kingdoms who ignore you.
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Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you; On the kingdoms that don't call on your names;
7 They're the ones who ruined Jacob, who wrecked and looted the place where he lived.
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For they have devoured Jacob, And destroyed his homeland.
8 Don't blame us for the sins of our parents. Hurry up and help us; we're at the end of our rope.
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Don't hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, For we are in desperate need.
9 You're famous for helping; God, give us a break. Your reputation is on the line. Pull us out of this mess, forgive us our sins - do what you're famous for doing!
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Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name's sake.
10 Don't let the heathen get by with their sneers: "Where's your God? Is he out to lunch?" Go public and show the godless world that they can't kill your servants and get by with it.
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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.
11 Give groaning prisoners a hearing; pardon those on death row from their doom - you can do it!
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Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death;
12 Give our jeering neighbors what they've got coming to them; let their God-taunts boomerang and knock them flat.
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Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom Their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
13 Then we, your people, the ones you love and care for, will thank you over and over and over. We'll tell everyone we meet how wonderful you are, how praiseworthy you are!
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So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, Will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.