⁽¹⁾ God, the pagans have entered your heritage.
They have defiled your holy temple
and turned Yerushalayim into rubble.
² They have given the corpses of your servants
as food for the birds in the air,
yes, the flesh of those faithful to you
for the wild animals of the earth.
³ All around Yerushalayim
they have shed their blood like water,
and no one is left to bury them.
⁴ We suffer the taunts of our neighbors,
we are mocked and scorned by those around us.

⁵ How long, Adonai?
Will you be angry forever?
How long will your jealousy burn like fire?

⁶ Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you,
on the kingdoms that don’t call out your name;
⁷ for they have devoured Ya‘akov
and left his home a waste.

⁸ Don’t count past iniquities against us,
but let your compassion come quickly to meet us,
for we have been brought very low.
⁹ Help us, God of our salvation,
for the sake of the glory of your name.
Deliver us, forgive our sins,
for your name’s sake.
¹⁰ Why should the nations ask,
“Where is their God?”

Let the vengeance taken on your servants’ shed blood
be known among the nations before our eyes.
¹¹ Let the groaning of the captives come before you;
by your great strength save those condemned to death.

¹² Repay our neighbors sevenfold where they can feel it
for the insults they inflicted on you, Adonai.

¹³ Then we, your people and the flock in your pasture,
will give you thanks forever.
From generation to generation
we will proclaim your praise.
80 ⁽⁰⁾ For the leader. Set to “Lilies.” A testimony. A psalm of Asaf:

^2 (1) Shepherd of Isra’el, listen!
You who lead Yosef like a flock,
you whose throne is on the k’ruvim,
shine out!
^3 (2) Before Efrayim, Binyamin and M’nasheh,
rouse your power; and come to save us.
^4 (3) God, restore us!
Make your face shine, and we will be saved.

^5 (4) Adonai, God of armies, how long
will you be angry with your people’s prayers?
^6 (5) You have fed them tears as their bread
and made them drink tears in abundance.
^7 (6) You make our neighbors fight over us,
and our enemies mock us.
^8 (7) God of armies, restore us!
Make your face shine, and we will be saved.

^9 (8) You brought a vine out of Egypt,
you expelled the nations and planted it,
^10 (9) you cleared a space for it;
then it took root firmly and filled the land.
^11 (10) The mountains were covered with its shade,
the mighty cedars with its branches;
^12 (11) It put out branches as far as the sea
and shoots to the [Euphrates] River.

^13 (12) Why did you break down [the vineyard’s] wall,
so that all passing by can pluck [its fruit]?
^14 (13) The boar from the forest tears it apart;
wild creatures from the fields feed on it.

^15 (14) God of armies, please come back!
Look from heaven, see, and tend this vine!
^16 (15) Protect what your right hand planted,
the son you made strong for yourself.
^17 (16) It is burned by fire, it is cut down;
they perish at your frown of rebuke.
^18 (17) Help the man at your right hand,
the son of man you made strong for yourself.

^19 (18) Then we won’t turn away from you —
if you revive us, we will call on your name.
^20 (19) Adonai, God of armies, restore us!
Make your face shine, and we will be saved.
81 ⁽⁰⁾ For the Leader. On the gittit. By Asaf:

^2 (1) Sing for joy to God our strength!
Shout to the God of Ya‘akov!
^3 (2) Start the music! Beat the drum!
Play the sweet lyre and the lute!
^4 (3) Sound the shofar at Rosh-Hodesh
and at full moon for the pilgrim feast,
^5 (4) because this is a law for Isra’el,
a ruling of the God of Ya‘akov.
^6 (5) He placed it as a testimony in Y’hosef
when he went out against the land of Egypt.

I heard an unfamiliar voice say,
^7 (6) “I lifted the load from his shoulder;
his hands were freed from the [laborer’s] basket.
^8 (7) You called out when you were in trouble,
and I rescued you;
I answered you from the thundercloud;
I tested you at the M’rivah Spring [by saying,] (Selah)

^9 (8) “‘Hear, my people, while I give you warning!
Isra’el, if you would only listen to me!
^10 (9) There is not to be with you any foreign god;
you are not to worship an alien god.
^11 (10) I am Adonai your God,
who brought you up from the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth, and I will fill it.’

^12 (11) “But my people did not listen to my voice;
Isra’el would have none of me.
^13 (12) So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,
to live by their own plans.
^14 (13) How I wish my people would listen to me,
that Isra’el would live by my ways!
^15 (14) I would quickly subdue their enemies
and turn my hand against their foes.
^16 (15) Those who hate Adonai would cringe before him,
while [Isra’el’s] time would last forever.
^17 (16) They would be fed with the finest wheat,
and I would satisfy you with honey from the rocks.”