1. O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; your holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
2. The dead bodies of your servants have they given to be food unto the fowls of heaven, the flesh of your 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 have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.