79:1 A psalm of Asaph. God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance, desecrated Your holy temple, and turned Jerusalem into ruins.
79:2 They gave the corpses of Your servants to the birds of the sky for food, the flesh of Your godly ones to the beasts of the earth.
79:3 They poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.
79:4 We have become an object of reproach to our neighbors, a source of mockery and ridicule to those around us.
79:5 How long, Yahweh? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy keep burning like fire?
79:6 Pour out Your wrath on the nations that don't acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that don't call on Your name,
79:7 for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.
79:8 Do not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come to us quickly, for we have become weak.
79:9 God of our salvation, help us-- for the glory of Your name. Deliver us and atone for our sins, because of Your name.
79:10 Why should the nations ask," Where is their God?" Before our eyes, let vengeance for the shed blood of Your servants be known among the nations.
79:11 Let the groans of the prisoners reach You; according to Your great power, preserve those condemned to die.
79:12 Pay back sevenfold to our neighbors the reproach they have hurled at You, Lord.
79:13 Then we, Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, will thank You forever; we will declare Your praise to generation after generation.
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