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Turn your anger against the nations that do not know you,
    against the people who do not honor you as God.
Those nations killed Jacob’s family
    and destroyed their land.
Please don’t punish us for the sins of our ancestors.
    Hurry, show us your mercy!
    We need you so much!

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Pour out your wrath(A) on the nations
    that do not acknowledge(B) you,
on the kingdoms
    that do not call on your name;(C)
for they have devoured(D) Jacob
    and devastated his homeland.

Do not hold against us the sins of past generations;(E)
    may your mercy come quickly to meet us,
    for we are in desperate need.(F)

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