Psalms 79

1 O God, the heathen are come into your inheritance; your holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

A psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathens are come into thy inheritance, they have defiled thy holy temple: they have made Jerusalem as a place to keep fruit.

2 The dead bodies of your servants have they given to be meat to the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth.

They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be meat for the fowls of the air: the flesh of thy saints for the beasts of the earth.

3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

They have poured out their blood as water, round about Jerusalem and there was none to bury them.

4 We are become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

We are become a reproach to our neighbours: a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

5 How long, LORD? will you be angry for ever? shall your jealousy burn like fire?

How long, O Lord, wilt thou be angry for ever: shall thy zeal be kindled like a fire?

6 Pour out your wrath on the heathen that have not known you, and on the kingdoms that have not called on your name.

Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that have not known thee: and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.

7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

Because they have devoured Jacob; and have laid waste his place.

8 O remember not against us former iniquities: let your tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.

Remember not our former iniquities: let thy mercies speedily prevent us, for we are become exceeding poor.

9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for your name’s sake.

Help us, O God, our saviour: and for the glory of thy name, O Lord, deliver us: and forgive us our sins for thy name’s sake:

10 Why should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of your servants which is shed.

Lest they should say among the Gentiles: Where is their God? And let him be made known among the nations before our eyes, By the revenging the blood of thy servants, which hath been shed:

11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you; according to the greatness of your power preserve you those that are appointed to die;

Let the sighing of the prisoners come in before thee. According to the greatness of thy arm, take possession of the children of them that have been put to death.

12 And render to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, with which they have reproached you, O Lord.

And render to our neighbours sevenfold in their bosom: the reproach wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

13 So we your people and sheep of your pasture will give you thanks for ever: we will show forth your praise to all generations.

But we thy people, and the sheep of thy pasture, will give thanks to thee for ever. We will shew forth thy praise, unto generation and generation.