1O God, nations have come into Thy inheritance, They have defiled Thy holy temple, They made Jerusalem become heaps,2They gave the dead bodies of Thy servants Food for the fowls of the heavens, The flesh of Thy saints For the wild beast of the earth.3They have shed their blood As water round about Jerusalem, And there is none burying.4We have been a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a derision to our surrounders.5Till when, O Jehovah? art Thou angry for ever? Thy jealousy doth burn as fire.6Pour Thy fury on the nations who have not known Thee, And on kingdoms that have not called in Thy name.7For one hath devoured Jacob, And his habitation they have made desolate.8Remember not for us the iniquities of forefathers, Haste, let Thy mercies go before us, For we have been very weak.9Help us, O God of our salvation, Because of the honour of Thy name, And deliver us, and cover over our sins, For Thy name's sake.10Why do the nations say, `Where is their God?' Let be known among the nations before our eyes, The vengeance of the blood of Thy servants that is shed.11Let the groaning of the prisoner come in before Thee, According to the greatness of Thine arm, Leave Thou the sons of death.12And turn Thou back to our neighbours, Sevenfold unto their bosom, their reproach, Wherewith they reproached Thee, O Lord.13And we, Thy people, and the flock of Thy pasture, We give thanks to Thee to the age, To all generations we recount Thy praise!

To the Overseer. -- `On the Lilies.' A testimony of Asaph. -- A Psalm.1Shepherd of Israel, give ear, Leading Joseph as a flock, Inhabiting the cherubs -- shine forth,2Before Ephraim, and Benjamin, and Manasseh, Wake up Thy might, and come for our salvation.3O God, cause us to turn back, And cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved.4Jehovah, God of Hosts, till when? Thou hast burned against the prayer of Thy people.5Thou hast caused them to eat bread of tears, And causest them to drink With tears a third time.6Thou makest us a strife to our neighbors, And our enemies mock at it.7God of Hosts, turn us back, And cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved.8A vine out of Egypt Thou dost bring, Thou dost cast out nations, and plantest it.9Thou hast looked before it, and dost root it, And it filleth the land,10Covered have been hills with its shadow, And its boughs are cedars of God.11It sendeth forth its branches unto the sea, And unto the river its sucklings.12Why hast Thou broken down its hedges, And all passing by the way have plucked it?13A boar out of the forest doth waste it, And a wild beast of the fields consumeth it.14God of Hosts, turn back, we beseech Thee, Look from heaven, and see, and inspect this vine,15And the root that Thy right hand planted, And the branch Thou madest strong for Thee,16Burnt with fire -- cut down, From the rebuke of Thy face they perish.17Let Thy hand be on the man of Thy right hand, On the son of man Thou hast strengthened for Thyself.18And we do not go back from Thee, Thou dost revive us, and in Thy name we call.19O Jehovah, God of Hosts, turn us back, Cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved!

To the Overseer. -- `On the Gittith.' By Asaph.1Cry aloud to God our strength, Shout to the God of Jacob.2Lift up a song, and give out a timbrel, A pleasant harp with psaltery.3Blow in the month a trumpet, In the new moon, at the day of our festival,4For a statute to Israel it is, An ordinance of the God of Jacob.5A testimony on Joseph He hath placed it, In his going forth over the land of Egypt. A lip, I have not known -- I hear.6From the burden his shoulder I turned aside, His hands from the basket pass over.7In distress thou hast called and I deliver thee, I answer thee in the secret place of thunder, I try thee by the waters of Meribah. Selah.8Hear, O My people, and I testify to thee, O Israel, if thou dost hearken to me:9There is not in thee a strange god, And thou bowest not thyself to a strange god.10I am Jehovah thy God, Who bringeth thee up out of the land of Egypt. Enlarge thy mouth, and I fill it.11But, My people hearkened not to My voice, And Israel hath not consented to Me.12And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.13O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk.14As a little thing their enemies I cause to bow, And against their adversaries I turn back My hand,15Those hating Jehovah feign obedience to Him, But their time is -- to the age.16He causeth him to eat of the fat of wheat, And with honey from a rock I satisfy thee!