Psalm 79
1 Ein Psalm Asafs. / Elohim, es sind Heiden in dein Erbe gedrungen, / Die haben deinen heiligen Tempel entweiht, / In Trümmer verwandelt Jerusalem.
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 Sie haben deiner Knechte Leichen / Des Himmels Vögeln zum Fraß gegeben. / Deiner Frommen Fleisch des Landes Getier.
[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 Sie haben ihr Blut vergossen wie Wasser / Rings um Jerusalem her, und niemand begrub (die Toten).
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 Wir sind unsern Nachbarn zur Schmach geworden, / Ein Spott und Gelächter für unsre Umgebung.
The people-groups that live in countries that surround our land insult us; they laugh at us and deride/belittle us.
5 Wie lange, Jahwe, wirst du noch zürnen, / Wird dein Eifer wie Feuer brennen?
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 Gieß deine Zornglut über die Heiden, die dich nicht erkannt, / Über die Reiche, die deinen Namen nicht angerufen.
[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 Denn sie haben Jakob verzehrt / Und seinen Wohnsitz verwüstet.
because they have killed Israeli people and they have ruined your country.
8 Rechne uns nicht der Vorfahren Sünden zu! / Eilends komm uns dein Erbarmen entgegen! / Denn wir sind sehr gebeugt.
Do not punish us because of the sins that our ancestors committed! Be merciful to us now/quickly, because we are very discouraged.
9 Hilf uns, Gott, du Quell unsers Heils. / Um deines Namens Ehre willen! / Rett uns, bedeck unsre Missetaten / Um deines Namens willen!
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 Warum sollen die Heiden sagen: / "Wo ist nun ihr Gott?" / Kund werde an den Heiden vor unsern Augen / Die Rache für deiner Knechte Blut, das sie vergossen!
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 Der Gefangenen Seufzen komme vor dich! / Mit deinem starken Arm / Erhalte die Kinder des Todes am Leben!
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 Und vergilt unsern Nachbarn siebenfach in ihren Busen / Ihr Schmähn, womit sie dich, Adonái, geschmäht!
In return for their having [often] insulted you, punish them seven times as much!
13 Wir aber, dein Volk, deiner Weide Schafe, / Wir wollen dir ewig danken, / Von Geschlecht zu Geschlecht deinen Ruhm verkünden.
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].
