¹⁰ Why should the nations say,
    “Where is their God?”^(A)

Before our eyes, make known among the nations
    that you avenge^(B) the outpoured blood^(C) of your servants.

² Why do the nations say,
    “Where is their God?”^(A)

¹⁷ Let the priests, who minister^(A) before the Lord,
    weep^(B) between the portico and the altar.^(C)
Let them say, “Spare your people, Lord.
    Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn,^(D)
    a byword^(E) among the nations.
Why should they say among the peoples,
    ‘Where is their God?^(F)’”

⁵ You have fed them with the bread of tears;^(A)
    you have made them drink tears by the bowlful.^(B)

¹⁰ My bones suffer mortal agony^(A)
    as my foes taunt^(B) me,
saying to me all day long,
    “Where is your God?”^(C)

⁹ For I eat ashes^(A) as my food
    and mingle my drink with tears^(B)

¹² Pay back into the laps^(A) of our neighbors seven times^(B)
    the contempt they have hurled at you, Lord.