Salmos 79
1 Ó Deus, os gentios vieram á tua herança; contaminaram o teu sancto templo; reduziram Jerusalem a montões de pedras.
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 Deram os corpos mortos dos teus servos por comida ás aves dos céus, e a carne dos teus sanctos ás bestas da terra.
[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 Derramaram o sangue d'elles como agua ao redor de Jerusalem, e não houve quem os enterrasse.
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 Somos feitos opprobrio para nossos visinhos, escarneo e zombaria para os que estão á roda de nós.
The people-groups that live in countries that surround our land insult us; they laugh at us and deride/belittle us.
5 Até quando, Senhor? Acaso te indignarás para sempre? Arderá o teu zelo como fogo?
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 Derrama o teu furor sobre os gentios que te não conhecem, e sobre os reinos que não invocam o teu nome.
[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 Porque devoraram a Jacob, e assolaram as suas moradas.
because they have killed Israeli people and they have ruined your country.
8 Não te lembres das nossas iniquidades passadas: previnam-nos depressa as tuas misericordias, pois já estamos muito abatidos.
Do not punish us because of the sins that our ancestors committed! Be merciful to us now/quickly, because we are very discouraged.
9 Ajuda-nos, ó Deus da nossa salvação, pela gloria do teu nome: e livra-nos, e espia os nossos peccados por amor do teu nome.
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 Porque diriam os gentios: Onde está o seu Deus? Seja elle conhecido entre os gentios, a nossa vista, pela vingança do sangue dos teus servos, que foi derramado.
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 Venha perante a tua face o gemido dos presos; segundo a grandeza do teu braço preserva aquelles que estão sentenciados á morte.
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 E torna aos nossos visinhos, no seu regaço, sete vezes tanto da sua injuria com a qual te injuriaram, Senhor.
In return for their having [often] insulted you, punish them seven times as much!
13 Assim nós, teu povo e ovelhas de teu pasto, te louvaremos eternamente: de geração em geração cantaremos os teus louvores.
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].
