Psalms 79

Psalm title: A Psalm of Asaph.

1. ¹O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance: thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
2. ²The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowl of the heavens, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth:
3. ³Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury [supplied: them].
4. ⁴We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision to them that are round about us.
5. ⁵How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
6. ⁶Pour out thy fury upon the nations that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name:
7. ⁷For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.
8. ⁸Remember not against us the iniquities of [supplied: our] forefathers; let thy tender mercies speedily come to meet us: for we are brought very low.
9. ⁹Help us, O God of our salvation, because of the glory of thy name; and deliver us, and forgive our sins, for thy name's sake.
10. ¹⁰Wherefore should the nations say, Where is their God? Let the avenging of the blood of thy servants that is shed be known among the nations in our sight.
11. ¹¹Let the groaning of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thine arm, preserve those that are appointed to die;
12. ¹²And render unto our neighbours, sevenfold into their bosom, their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
13. ¹³And we, thy people and the sheep of thy pasture, will give thanks unto thee for ever; we will shew forth thy praise from generation to generation.

Words in italics were supplied by the translators.

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