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Psalms 79
[1]
They have defiled your holy temple.
They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
[2] They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky,
the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.
[3] They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem.
There was no one to bury them.
[4] We have become a reproach to our neighbors,
a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
[5] How long, Yahweh?
Will you be angry forever?
Will your jealousy burn like fire?
[6] Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you,
on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name,
[7] for they have devoured Jacob,
and destroyed his homeland.
[8] Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us.
Let your tender mercies speedily meet us,
for we are in desperate need.
[9] Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name.
Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.
[10] Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes,
that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.
[11] Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you.
According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.
[12] Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom
their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
[13] So we, your people and sheep of your pasture,
will give you thanks forever.
We will praise you forever, to all generations.
A Psalm by Asaph.
God, the nations have come into your inheritance.They have defiled your holy temple.
They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
[2] They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky,
the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.
[3] They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem.
There was no one to bury them.
[4] We have become a reproach to our neighbors,
a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
[5] How long, Yahweh?
Will you be angry forever?
Will your jealousy burn like fire?
[6] Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you,
on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name,
[7] for they have devoured Jacob,
and destroyed his homeland.
[8] Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us.
Let your tender mercies speedily meet us,
for we are in desperate need.
[9] Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name.
Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.
[10] Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes,
that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.
[11] Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you.
According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.
[12] Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom
their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
[13] So we, your people and sheep of your pasture,
will give you thanks forever.
We will praise you forever, to all generations.