1O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance: thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem in heaps.2The 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:3Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.4We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision to them that are round about us.5How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?6Pour out thy fury upon the nations that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name:7For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.8Remember not against us the iniquities of our forefathers; let thy tender mercies speedily come to meet us: for we are brought very low.9Help 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.10Wherefore 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.11Let the groaning of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thine arm, preserve those that are appointed to die;12And render unto our neighbours, sevenfold into their bosom, their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.13And 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.

To the chief Musician. On Shoshannim-Eduth. Of Asaph. A Psalm.1Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that sittest between the cherubim, shine forth.2Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy strength, and come to our deliverance.3O God, restore us; and cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.4Jehovah, God of hosts, how long will thine anger smoke against the prayer of thy people?5Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure:6Thou hast made us a strife unto our neighbours, and our enemies mock among themselves.7Restore us, O God of hosts; and cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.8Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt; thou didst cast out the nations, and plant it:9Thou preparedst space before it, and it took deep root, and filled the land;10The mountains were covered with its shadow, and the branches thereof were like cedars of *God;11It sent out its boughs unto the sea, and its shoots unto the river.12Why hast thou broken down its fences, so that all who pass by the way do pluck it?13The boar out of the forest doth waste it, and the beast of the field doth feed off it.14O God of hosts, return, we beseech thee; look down from the heavens, and behold, and visit this vine;15Even the stock which thy right hand hath planted, and the young plant thou madest strong for thyself.16It is burned with fire, it is cut down; they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.17Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou hast made strong for thyself.18So will we not go back from thee. Revive us, and we will call upon thy name.19Restore us, O Jehovah, God of hosts; cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph.1Sing ye joyously unto God our strength, shout aloud unto the God of Jacob;2Raise a song, and sound the tambour, the pleasant harp with the lute.3Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the set time, on our feast day:4For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob;5He ordained it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went forth over the land of Egypt, where I heard a language that I knew not.6I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.7Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.8Hear, my people, and I will testify unto thee; O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!9There shall no strange *god be in thee, neither shalt thou worship any foreign *god.10I am Jehovah thy God, that brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.11But my people hearkened not to my voice, and Israel would none of me.12So I gave them up unto their own hearts' stubbornness: they walked after their own counsels.13Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, that Israel had walked in my ways!14I would soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.15The haters of Jehovah would have come cringing unto him; but their time would have been for ever.16And he would have fed them with the finest of wheat; yea, with honey out of the rock would I have satisfied thee.