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10 Why should the nations ask us,
    “Where is your God?”
Let us see you punish the nations
    for shedding the blood of your servants.

11 Listen to the groans of the prisoners,
    and by your great power free those who are condemned to die.
12 Lord, pay the other nations back seven times
    for all the insults they have hurled at you.

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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.
11 May the groans of the prisoners come before you;
    with your strong arm preserve those condemned to die.
12 Pay back into the laps(D) of our neighbors seven times(E)
    the contempt they have hurled at you, Lord.

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