The Psalms

chapter 79


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verse #1

A Psalm by Asaph. God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.


verse #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.


verse #3

They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.


verse #4

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.


verse #5

How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?


verse #6

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name,


verse #7

for they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.


verse #8

Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.


verse #9

Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.


verse #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.


verse #11

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.


verse #12

Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.


verse #13

So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.

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