Listen, our God, for we are despised. Make their insults return on their own heads and let them be taken as plunder to a land of captivity.

Do not cover their guilt or let their sin be erased from Your sight, because they have provoked the builders.

Let his forefathers' guilt be remembered before the LORD, and do not let his mother's sin be blotted out.

Let their sins always remain before the LORD, and let Him cut off [all] memory of them from the earth.

Remember, LORD, [what] the Edomites said that day at Jerusalem: "Destroy it! Destroy it down to its foundations!"

Happy is he who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rocks.

Pour out Your wrath on the nations that don't recognize You and on the families that don't call on Your name, for they have consumed Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off and made his homeland desolate.

But You, LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt; do not blot out their sin before You. Let them be forced to stumble before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.

says the inhabitant of Zion; "Let the violence [done] to me and my family [be done] to Babylon. Let my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea," says Jerusalem.

For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?"

They cried out with a loud voice: "O Lord, holy and true, how long until You judge and avenge our blood from those who live on the earth?"

He sent fire from on high into my bones; He made it descend. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, sick all day long.

Because of this, our heart is sick; because of these, our eyes grow dim:

Therefore everyone's hands will become weak, and every man's heart will melt.

My joy has flown away; grief has settled on me. My heart is sick.

So then I ask you not to be discouraged over my afflictions on your behalf, for they are your glory.