Psalms 79

¹Psalms 79:1. A Psalm of Asaph. The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.²Psalms 79:2. They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.³Psalms 79:3. They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.⁴Psalms 79:4. We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.⁵Psalms 79:5. How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?⁶Psalms 79:6. Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,⁷Psalms 79:7. for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.⁸Psalms 79:8. Do not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come quickly, for we are brought low.⁹Psalms 79:9. Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; deliver us and atone for our sins, for the sake of Your name.¹⁰Psalms 79:10. Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.¹¹Psalms 79:11. May the groans of the captives reach You; by the strength of Your arm preserve those condemned to death.¹²Psalms 79:12. Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.¹³Psalms 79:13. Then we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, will thank You forever; from generation to generation we will declare Your praise.