Psalms 79
1 [A Psalm by Asaph.] God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
melody to/for Asaph God to come (in): come nation in/on/with inheritance your to defile [obj] temple holiness your to set: put [obj] Jerusalem to/for ruin
2 They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your faithful to the animals of the earth.
to give: give [obj] carcass servant/slave your food to/for bird [the] heaven flesh pious your to/for living thing land: country/planet
3 Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.
to pour: pour blood their like/as water around Jerusalem and nothing to bury
4 We have become objects of contempt to our neighbors, mocked and ridiculed by those who are around us.
to be reproach to/for neighboring our derision and derision to/for around us
5 How long, YHWH? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
till what? LORD be angry to/for perpetuity to burn: burn like fire jealousy your
6 Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you; on the kingdoms that do not call on your name;
to pour: pour rage your to(wards) [the] nation which not to know you and upon kingdom which in/on/with name your not to call: call to
7 For they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.
for to eat [obj] Jacob and [obj] pasture his be desolate: destroyed
8 Do not hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.
not to remember to/for us iniquity: crime first: previous to hasten to meet us compassion your for to languish much
9 Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name's sake.
to help us God salvation our upon word: because glory name your and to rescue us and to atone upon sin our because name your
10 Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants' blood is being poured out.
to/for what? to say [the] nation where? God their to know (in/on/with nation *Q(k)*) to/for eye our vengeance blood servant/slave your [the] to pour: pour
11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, free those who are sentenced to death.
to come (in): come to/for face: before your groaning prisoner like/as greatness arm your to remain son: descendant/people death
12 Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their lap the insults with which they have insulted you, YHWH.
and to return: return to/for neighboring our sevenfold to(wards) bosom: lap their reproach their which to taunt you Lord
13 So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.
and we people your and flock pasturing your to give thanks to/for you to/for forever: enduring to/for generation and generation to recount praise your
