Psalms 79
1 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
God, other people-groups have invaded your land. They have (desecrated your temple/caused your temple to be unfit for worship), and they have destroyed all the buildings in Jerusalem.
2 to give: give [obj] carcass servant/slave your food to/for bird [the] heaven flesh pious your to/for living thing land: country/planet
[Instead of burying] the corpses of your people [whom they killed], they allowed vultures and wild animals to eat the flesh of those corpses,
3 to pour: pour blood their like/as water around Jerusalem and nothing to bury
When they killed your people, your people’s blood flowed like water through [the streets of] Jerusalem, and there was [almost] no one [HYP] left to bury their corpses.
4 to be reproach to/for neighboring our derision and derision to/for around us
The people-groups that live in countries that surround our land insult us; they laugh at us and deride/belittle us.
5 till what? LORD be angry to/for perpetuity to burn: burn like fire jealousy your
Yahweh, how long [will this continue]? Will you be angry with us forever? Will your being angry [destroy us like] a burning fire [destroys things]?
6 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
[Instead of being angry with us], be angry with the people-groups that do not know/worship you! Be angry with kingdoms whose people do not pray to you,
7 for to eat [obj] Jacob and [obj] pasture his be desolate: destroyed
because they have killed Israeli people and they have ruined your country.
8 not to remember to/for us iniquity: crime first: previous to hasten to meet us compassion your for to languish much
Do not punish us because of the sins that our ancestors committed! Be merciful to us now/quickly, because we are very discouraged.
9 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
God, you have saved/rescued [us many times], [so] help us [now]; rescue us and forgive us for having sinned in order that other people will honor you [MTY].
10 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
It is not right that [RHQ] other people-groups say [about us], “If their God [is very powerful], (surely he should help them/why does he not [help them])?” Allow us to see you punishing the people of other nations in return for their shedding our blood; they have killed many of us, your people.
11 to come (in): come to/for face: before your groaning prisoner like/as greatness arm your to remain son: descendant/people death
Listen to your people groaning while they are in prison, and by your great power free those whom our enemies say that they will certainly execute.
12 and to return: return to/for neighboring our sevenfold to(wards) bosom: lap their reproach their which to taunt you Lord
In return for their having [often] insulted you, punish them seven times as much!
13 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
After you do that, we, whom you [take care of like a shepherd takes care of] his sheep, will continue praising you; we will continue to praise you forever [HYP].
