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
A Psalm by Asaph. God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
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
They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.
3 to pour: pour blood their like/as water around Jerusalem and nothing to bury
They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.
4 to be reproach to/for neighboring our derision and derision to/for around us
We have become a reproach to our neighbours, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
5 till what? LORD be angry to/for perpetuity to burn: burn like fire jealousy your
How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
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
Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name,
7 for to eat [obj] Jacob and [obj] pasture his be desolate: destroyed
for they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.
8 not to remember to/for us iniquity: crime first: previous to hasten to meet us compassion your for to languish much
Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.
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
Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.
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
Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let it be known amongst the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.
11 to come (in): come to/for face: before your groaning prisoner like/as greatness arm your to remain son: descendant/people death
Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.
12 and to return: return to/for neighboring our sevenfold to(wards) bosom: lap their reproach their which to taunt you Lord
Pay back to our neighbours seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
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
So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.
