Focused Passage
The Defiled Sanctuary, the Reproached People, and the God Who Atones for His Name
The psalm moves from the desecrated inheritance and slaughtered servants, to the shame of national reproach, to urgent questions about God's anger, to confession-aware petitions for mercy and atonement, to pleas for public vindication, and finally to the vow of generational praise from God's sheep.
Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources
10Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.
11May the groans of the captives reach You; by the strength of Your arm preserve those condemned to death.
12Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.
13Then we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, will thank You forever; from generation to generation we will declare Your praise.
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