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 have come into thy 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] food to the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints, to 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 around 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 have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to them that are around us.

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

How long, 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 have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called 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 dwelling-place.

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

O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily succor 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.

Why should the heathen say, Where [is] their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight [by] avenging the blood of thy servants [which is] shed.

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 die;

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

And render to our neighbors seven-fold into their bosom their reproach, with which 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 show forth thy praise to all generations.