A Psalm of Asaph.
1 O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them .
4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
5 How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
6 Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
8 O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name’s sake.
10 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;
12 And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
13 So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.
1 in finem pro his qui commutabuntur testimonium Asaph psalmus
2 Qui regis Israhel intende
qui deducis tamquam oves Ioseph
qui sedes super cherubin manifestare
3 coram Effraim et Beniamin et Manasse
excita potentiam tuam et veni ut salvos facias nos
4 Deus converte nos et ostende faciem tuam et salvi erimus
5 Domine Deus virtutum
quousque irasceris super orationem servi tui
6 cibabis nos pane lacrimarum
et potum dabis nobis in lacrimis in mensura
7 posuisti nos in contradictionem vicinis nostris
et inimici nostri subsannaverunt nos
8 Deus virtutum converte nos
et ostende faciem tuam et salvi erimus
9 vineam de Aegypto transtulisti eiecisti gentes et plantasti eam
10 dux itineris fuisti in conspectu eius
et plantasti radices eius et implevit terram
11 operuit montes umbra eius et arbusta eius cedros Dei
12 extendit palmites suos usque ad mare
et usque ad Flumen propagines eius
13 ut quid destruxisti maceriam eius
et vindemiant eam omnes qui praetergrediuntur viam
14 exterminavit eam aper de silva
et singularis ferus depastus est eam
15 Deus virtutum convertere
respice de caelo et vide et visita vineam istam
16 et perfice eam quam plantavit dextera tua
et super filium quem confirmasti tibi
17 incensa igni et suffossa ab increpatione vultus tui peribunt
18 fiat manus tua super virum dexterae tuae
et super filium hominis quem confirmasti tibi
19 et non discedimus a te
vivificabis nos et nomen tuum invocabimus
20 Domine Deus virtutum converte nos
et ostende faciem tuam et salvi erimus