Bilingual reading

God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

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.

They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name,

for they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.

Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.

Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.

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.

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.

Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.

مزمور. لِآساف. أَللَّهُمَّ، قد دَخَلَتِ الأُمَمُ ميراثَكَ نَجَّسَت هَيكَلَ قُدسِكَ جَعَلَت أُورَشَليمَ أَطْلالًا

أَسلَمَت جُثَثَ عَبيدِكَ طَعامًا لِطُيورِ السَّماء ولُحومَ أَصفِيائِكَ لِوُحوشِ الأَرض

سَفَكَت دِماءَهم كالماءِ حَولَ أُورَشَليم ولم يَكُنْ مَن يُواري الثَّرى

صِرْنا عارًا لِجيرانِنا هُزُؤًا وسُخرِيَّةً لِلَّذينَ حَولَنا

إِلامَ يا رَبُّ؟ أَعلى الدَّوامِ تَغضَب وكالنّارِ تَتَّقِدُ غَيرَتُكَ؟

صُبَّ غَضَبَكَ على الأُمَمِ الَّتي ما عَرَفَتكَ وعلى المَمالِكِ الَّتي لم تَدْعُ بِٱسمِكَ

فإِنَّها قد أَكَلَت يَعْقوب وخَرَّبَت مَسكِنَه

لا تَنسِبْ إِلَينا آثامَ الأَقْدَمين أَسرِعْ، ولْتُبادِرْنا مَراحِمُكَ فقد ذُلِّلْنا تَذليلًا

أُنصُرْنا يا إِلٰهَ خَلاصِنا إِكرامًا لِمَجدِ ٱسمِكَ وأَنقِذْنا وٱغفِرْ خَطايانا مِن أَجلِ ٱسمِكَ

لِمَ تَقولُ الأُمَمُ: «أَينَ إِلهُهم؟» لِيُعْرَفْ عِندَ الأُمَمِ وأَمامَ عُيونِنا الثَّأرُ لِدِماءِ عَبيدِكَ المَسْفوكة

ولْيَبلُغْ إِلى أَمامِكَ تَنَهُّدُ الأسير. بِعَظَمَةِ ذِراعِكَ أَبقِ أَبْناءَ المَوت

أُردُدْ على جيرانِنا العارَ الَّذي عَيَّروكَ بِه سَبعَةَ أَضْعافٍ في أَحضانِهم أَيُّها السَّيِّد

ونَحنُ شَعبَكَ وغَنَمَ رَعِيَّتِكَ لِلأَبَدِ نَحمَدُكَ إِلى جيلٍ فجيلٍ نُحَدِّثُ بِتَسْبِحَتِكَ