They crush your people, Lord, hurting those you claim as your own.

耶和华啊，他们强压你的百姓，苦害你的产业。

耶和华啊，他们强压你的百姓，苦害你的产业。

耶和华啊，他们强压你的百姓，苦害你的产业。

耶和华啊，他们压迫你的子民，苦害你的产业。

耶和华啊！他们欺压你的子民，苦害你的产业。

耶和华啊，他们压碎你的子民，苦待你的继业；

耶和華啊，他們強壓你的百姓，苦害你的產業。

耶和華啊，他們強壓你的百姓，苦害你的產業。

耶和華啊，他們強壓你的百姓，苦害你的產業。

耶和華啊，他們壓迫你的子民，苦害你的產業。

耶和華啊！他們欺壓你的子民，苦害你的產業。

永恆主啊，他們壓碎你的人民，苦害你的產業。

耶和華啊，他們壓碎你的子民，苦待你的繼業；

耶和華歟、彼壓制爾民、困苦爾業、

爾所得之民人、受彼凌辱兮、

主歟、彼眾蹂躪主之百姓、苦害主之子民、

蹂躪爾天民。摧殘爾基業。

They crush your people, Lord; they oppress your inheritance.

Lord, they crush your people. They treat badly those who belong to you.

They crush your people, O Lord, and afflict your heritage.

LORD, they crush your people; they oppress your heritage.

They crush Your people, Lord, And afflict Your inheritance.

They break in pieces Your people, O Lord, And afflict Your heritage.

They break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah, And afflict thy heritage.

Lord, they crush Your people; they afflict Your heritage.

They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.

O LORD, they crush your people; they oppress the nation that belongs to you.

They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, and afflict your heritage.

How dare you crush my people, grinding the faces of the poor into the dust?” demands the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

but you are the very ones who hate good and love evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh from their bones.Yes, you eat my people’s flesh, strip off their skin, and break their bones. You chop them up like meat for the cooking pot.

They have left the bodies of your servants as food for the birds of heaven. The flesh of your godly ones has become food for the wild animals.Blood has flowed like water all around Jerusalem; no one is left to bury the dead.

Then they thought,“ Let’s destroy everything!” So they burned down all the places where God was worshiped.

And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will be clothed in burlap and will prophesy during those 1,260 days.”

But for your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.

For they have devoured your people Israel, making the land a desolate wilderness.

Years passed, and the king of Egypt died. But the Israelites continued to groan under their burden of slavery. They cried out for help, and their cry rose up to God.God heard their groaning, and he remembered his covenant promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

“ You are my battle ax and sword,” says the Lord.“ With you I will shatter nations and destroy many kingdoms.With you I will shatter armies— destroying the horse and rider, the chariot and charioteer.With you I will shatter men and women, old people and children, young men and young women.With you I will shatter shepherds and flocks, farmers and oxen, captains and officers.

If you don’t, they will maul me like a lion, tearing me to pieces with no one to rescue me.

“ You rejoice and are glad, you who plundered my chosen people. You frisk about like a calf in a meadow and neigh like a stallion.

“ King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has eaten and crushed us and drained us of strength. He has swallowed us like a great monster and filled his belly with our riches. He has thrown us out of our own country.

From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me, but they have never defeated me.My back is covered with cuts, as if a farmer had plowed long furrows.

Will those who do evil never learn? They eat up my people like bread and wouldn’t think of praying to the Lord.

I could see that she was drunk— drunk with the blood of God’s holy people who were witnesses for Jesus. I stared at her in complete amazement.

“ But you! You have eyes only for greed and dishonesty! You murder the innocent, oppress the poor, and reign ruthlessly.”

Don’t let these wild beasts destroy your turtledoves. Don’t forget your suffering people forever.Remember your covenant promises, for the land is full of darkness and violence!

What is this?” asks the Lord.“ Why are my people enslaved again? Those who rule them shout in exultation. My name is blasphemed all day long.