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79:1  The nations have come into your inheritance, God! They’ve defiled your holy temple. They’ve made Jerusalem a bunch of ruins.
79:2  They’ve left your servants’ bodies as food for the birds; they’ve left the flesh of your faithful to the wild animals of the earth.
79:3  They’ve poured out the blood of the faithful like water all around Jerusalem, and there’s no one left to bury them.
79:4  We’ve become a joke to our neighbors, nothing but objects of ridicule and disapproval to those around us.
79:5  How long will you rage, Lord? Forever? How long will your anger burn like fire?
79:6  Pour out your wrath on the nations who don’t know you, on the kingdoms that haven’t called on your name.
79:7  They’ve devoured Jacob and demolished his pasture.
79:8  Don’t remember the iniquities of past generations; let your compassion hurry to meet us because we’ve been brought so low.
79:9  God of our salvation, help us for the glory of your name! Deliver us and cover our sins for the sake of your name!
79:10  Why should the nations say, “Where’s their God now?” Let vengeance for the spilled blood of your servants be known among the nations before our very eyes!
79:11  Let the prisoners’ groaning reach you. With your powerful arm spare those who are destined to die.
79:12  Pay back our neighbors seven times over, right where it hurts, for the insults they used on you, Lord.
79:13  We are, after all, your people and the sheep of your very own pasture. We will give you thanks forever; we will proclaim your praises from one generation to the next.