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A psalm of Asaph. God, nations have come against your chosen people. They have ruined your holy Temple. They have turned Jerusalem into ruins.

God our Savior, help us so people will praise you. Save us and forgive our sins so people will honor you.

Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Tell the other nations in our presence that you punish those who kill your servants.

God, take us back. Show us your kindness so we can be saved.

Lord God All-Powerful, how long will you be angry at the prayers of your people?

God All-Powerful, take us back. Show us your kindness so we can be saved.

God All-Powerful, come back. Look down from heaven and see. Take care of us, your vine.

Lord God All-Powerful, take us back. Show us your kindness so we can be saved.

For the director of music. By the gittith. A psalm of Asaph. Sing for joy to God, our strength; shout out loud to the God of Jacob.

This is the law for Israel; it is the command of the God of Jacob.

You must not have foreign gods; you must not worship any false god.

I, the Lord , am your God, who brought you out of Egypt. Open your mouth and I will feed you.

A psalm of Asaph. God is in charge of the great meeting; he judges among the "gods."

I said, ‘You are "gods." You are all sons of God Most High.'

God, come and judge the earth, because you own all the nations.

A song. A psalm of Asaph. God, do not keep quiet; God, do not be silent or still.

God, do to them what you did to Midian, what you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.

They said, "Let's take for ourselves the pasturelands that belong to God."

My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff blown away by the wind.

Then they will know that you are the Lord , that only you are God Most High over all the earth.