Psalms 79
1 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.
Un salmo de Asaf. Dios, las naciones han entrado en tu herencia. Han profanado tu santo templo. Han puesto a Jerusalén en montones.
2 [Instead of burying] the corpses of your people [whom they killed], they allowed vultures and wild animals to eat the flesh of those corpses,
Han entregado los cadáveres de tus siervos para que sean alimento de las aves del cielo, la carne de tus santos a los animales de la tierra.
3 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.
Han derramado su sangre como agua alrededor de Jerusalén. No había nadie para enterrarlos.
4 The people-groups that live in countries that surround our land insult us; they laugh at us and deride/belittle us.
Nos hemos convertido en un reproche para nuestros vecinos, una burla y un escarnio a los que nos rodean.
5 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]?
¿Hasta cuándo, Yahvé? ¿Estarás siempre enfadado? ¿Arderán tus celos como el fuego?
6 [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,
Derrama tu ira sobre las naciones que no te conocen, en los reinos que no invocan tu nombre,
7 because they have killed Israeli people and they have ruined your country.
porque han devorado a Jacob, y destruyó su patria.
8 Do not punish us because of the sins that our ancestors committed! Be merciful to us now/quickly, because we are very discouraged.
No nos eches en cara las iniquidades de nuestros antepasados. Que tu tierna misericordia nos encuentre pronto, ya que tenemos una necesidad desesperada.
9 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].
Ayúdanos, Dios de nuestra salvación, para gloria de tu nombre. Líbranos y perdona nuestros pecados, por tu nombre.
10 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.
¿Por qué han de decir las naciones: “Dónde está su Dios”? Que se conozca entre las naciones, ante nuestros ojos, que la venganza por la sangre de tus siervos está siendo derramada.
11 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.
Que el suspiro del prisionero llegue ante ti. Según la grandeza de tu poder, preserva a los condenados a muerte.
12 In return for their having [often] insulted you, punish them seven times as much!
Devuelve a nuestros vecinos siete veces en su seno su reproche con el que te han reprochado, Señor.
13 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].
Así que nosotros, tu pueblo y las ovejas de tus pastos, te dará las gracias para siempre. Te alabaremos por siempre, por todas las generaciones.
