Psalms 79

1 A PSALM OF ASAPH. O God, nations have come into Your inheritance, They have defiled Your holy temple, They made Jerusalem become heaps,

A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

2 They gave the dead bodies of Your servants [As] food for the birds of the heavens, The flesh of Your saints For the wild beast of the earth.

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

3 They have shed their blood As water around Jerusalem, And there is none burying.

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

4 We have been a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and a derision to our surrounders.

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

5 Until when, O YHWH? Are You angry forever? Your jealousy burns as fire.

How long, O LORD, wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

6 Pour Your fury on the nations who have not known You, And on kingdoms that have not called on Your Name.

Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name.

7 For [one] has devoured Jacob, And they have made his habitation desolate.

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.

8 Do not remember for us the iniquities of forefathers, Hurry, let Your mercies go before us, For we have been very weak.

Remember not against us the iniquities of our forefathers: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.

9 Help us, O God of our salvation, Because of the glory of Your Name, And deliver us, and cover over our sins, For Your Name’s sake.

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

10 Why do the nations say, “Where [is] their God?” Let [it] be known among the nations before our eyes, The vengeance of the blood of Your servants that is shed.

Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed be known among the heathen in our sight.

11 Let the groaning of the prisoner come in before You, According to the greatness of Your arm, Leave the sons of death.

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to death;

12 And return to our neighbors, Sevenfold to their bosom, their reproach, With which they reproached You, O Lord.

And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

13 And we, Your people, and the flock of Your pasture, We give thanks to You for all time, We recount Your praise from generation to generation!

So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.