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.

A PSALM OF ASAPH. O God, nations have come into Your inheritance, They have defiled Your holy temple, They made Jerusalem become heaps,

2 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.

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.

3 They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

They have shed their blood As water around Jerusalem, And there is none burying.

4 We have become a reproach to our neighbours, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

We have been a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and a derision to our surrounders.

5 How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

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

6 Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name,

Pour Your fury on the nations who have not known You, And on kingdoms that have not called on Your Name.

7 for they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.

For [one] has devoured Jacob, And they have made his habitation desolate.

8 Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.

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

9 Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.

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.

10 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.

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.

11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.

Let the groaning of the prisoner come in before You, According to the greatness of Your arm, Leave the sons of death.

12 Pay back to our neighbours seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

And return to our neighbors, Sevenfold to their bosom, their reproach, With which they reproached You, O 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, Your people, and the flock of Your pasture, We give thanks to You for all time, We recount Your praise from generation to generation!