תהילים 79
| מזמור לאסף אלהים באו גוים בנחלתך-- טמאו את היכל קדשך שמו את-ירושלם לעיים | 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.
| נתנו את-נבלת עבדיך-- מאכל לעוף השמים בשר חסידיך לחיתו-ארץ | 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,
| שפכו דמם כמים--סביבות ירושלם ואין קובר | 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.
| היינו חרפה לשכנינו לעג וקלס לסביבותינו | 4 |
The people-groups that live in countries that surround our land insult us; they laugh at us and deride/belittle us.
| עד-מה יהוה תאנף לנצח תבער כמו-אש קנאתך | 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]?
| שפך חמתך-- אל הגוים אשר לא-ידעוך ועל ממלכות-- אשר בשמך לא קראו | 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,
| כי אכל את-יעקב ואת-נוהו השמו | 7 |
because they have killed Israeli people and they have ruined your country.
| אל-תזכר-לנו עונת ראשנים מהר יקדמונו רחמיך-- כי דלונו מאד | 8 |
Do not punish us because of the sins that our ancestors committed! Be merciful to us now/quickly, because we are very discouraged.
| עזרנו אלהי ישענו-- על-דבר כבוד-שמך והצילנו וכפר על-חטאתינו למען שמך | 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].
| למה יאמרו הגוים-- איה אלהיהם יודע בגיים (בגוים) לעינינו נקמת דם-עבדיך השפוך | 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.
| תבוא לפניך אנקת אסיר כגדל זרועך--הותר בני תמותה | 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.
| והשב לשכנינו שבעתים אל-חיקם חרפתם אשר חרפוך אדני | 12 |
In return for their having [often] insulted you, punish them seven times as much!
| ואנחנו עמך וצאן מרעיתך-- נודה לך לעולם לדר ודר-- נספר תהלתך | 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].
