A psalm of Asaph
79
📚✭O God, the nations have comeinto your inheritance;
they have defiled your
holy temple;
they have laid Jerusalem
in heaps.
2 📚They have given the dead bodies
of your servants as food
to the birds of the heavens,
the flesh of your saints to the
beasts of the earth.
3 📚They have shed their blood
like water around Jerusalem,
and there was no one
to bury them.
4 📚We have become objects
of reproach to our neighbours,
a scorn and derision to those
who are around us.
5 📚✭How long, LORD?
Will you be angry forever?
Will your jealousy burn like fire?
6 📚✭Pour out your wrath on the nations
that have not known you,
and on the kingdoms that have not
called on your name.
7 📚For they have devoured Jacob,
and laid waste his dwelling place.
8 📚✭Oh, do not remember our
former evil deeds against us.
Let your tender mercies come
speedily to us,
for we are brought very low.
9 📚✭Help us, O God of our salvation,
for the glory of your name;
and rescue us, and purge away
our sins,
for your name’s sake.
10 📚✭Why should the nations say,
“Where is their God?”
Let it be known among the nations,
in our sight,
that you avenge the blood
of your servants which has
been shed.
11 📚Let the groaning of the prisoner
come before you.
In accordance with the greatness of
your power preserve the dying.
12 📚And repay seven times as much
into the bosoms of our neighbours
the scorn with which
they scorned you, O Lord.
13 📚So we, your people and sheep✭
of your pasture,
will give you thanks forever.
We will declare your praise to all
generations.