When he was making inquisition for blood, of them, had he remembrance, he forgat not the outcry of the oppressed.

They multiply their idols - another, have they purchased! I will not pour out their drink-offerings of blood, nor will I take up their names on my lips.

In whose hands is a plot, and, their right hand, is filled with a bribe.

Wait thou for Yahweh, - Be strong, and let thy heart be bold, Wait, then, for Yahweh!

Because they heed not The Deeds of Yahweh, or the Work of his hands, he will pull them down, and not build them.

What profit in my blood? in my going down into the pit? Can dust praise thee? Can it declare thy faithfulness?

Be strong, and let your heart be bold, all ye who are waiting for Yahweh.

Vindicate me, O God, and plead my cause, Against a nation, without lovingkindness, From the man of deceit and perversity, wilt thou deliver me?

Will I eat the flesh of mighty oxen? Or, the blood of he-goats, will I drink?

Be favorable unto me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness, And, in the multitude of thy compassions, blot out my transgressions;

Hide thy face from my sins, - And, all mine iniquities, blot out;

Rescue me from shed-blood, O God, the God of my salvation, My tongue should shout thy righteousness;

Do good, in thy good-pleasure, unto Zion, Wilt thou build the walls of Jerusalem!

The righteous man will rejoice when he hath seen an avenging, His feet, will he bathe in the blood of the lawless one: -

That thou mayest bathe thy foot in blood, - The tongue of thy dogs, from the foes, hath its portion.

For, God, will save Zion, And build the cities of Judah, So shall men dwell there, and possess it:

Arise! O God, plead thine own cause, Remember the reproach of thee, from the impious one, all the day:

When he turned, into blood, their Nile-streams, And, their own rivers, could they not drink;

And built, like the heights, his sanctuary, Like the earth, he founded it to times age-abiding.

They have poured out their blood like water, Round about Jerusalem, With none to bury.

Wherefore should the nations say - Where is their God? Let him be known among the nations before our eyes! Yea! By the avenging of the blood of thy servants which hath been shed!

Against thy people, they craftily devise a secret plot, And conspire against thy treasured ones.

For I said, To times age-abiding, shall lovingkindness be built up, As for the heavens, thou wilt establish thy faithfulness therein.

Unto times age-abiding, will I establish thy seed, And will build up, unto generation after generation, thy throne. Selah.

They make an attack on the life of the righteous one, - And, innocent blood, they condemn.

When Yahweh, hath built up, Zion, Hath appeared in his glory;

Where the birds build their nests, The stork, in the fir-trees, hath her house;

He turned their waters into blood, And so caused their fish to die;

And poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, And the land was polluted with blood-shed;

And hath caused the famished to dwell there, And they have built them a city to dwell in;

Plead my cause, and redeem me, By thy word, give me life

If, Yahweh, build not the house, in vain, have the builders of it toiled thereon, If, Yahweh, watch not the city, in vain, hath the watchman kept awake: