79:1 [A Psalm of Asaph.]
God, the nations have ①invaded Your inheritance;
They have defiled Your holy temple;
They have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
▷ ①Lit come into
79:2 They have given the dead bodies of Your servants to the birds of the sky as food,
The flesh of Your godly ones to the animals of the earth.
79:3 They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem;
And there was no one to bury them.
79:4 We have become a disgrace before our neighbors,
An object of derision and ridicule to those around us.
79:5 How long, LORD? Will You be angry forever?
Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
79:6 Pour out Your wrath upon the nations which do not know You,
And upon the kingdoms which do not call upon Your name.
79:7 For they have devoured Jacob
And laid waste his ①settlement.
▷ ①Lit pasture
79:8 Do not ①hold us responsible for ②the guilty deeds of our forefathers;
Let Your compassion come quickly to meet us,
For we have become very low.
▷ ①Lit remember against us ②Or our former sins
79:9 Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name;
And save us and ①forgive our sins for the sake of Your name.
▷ ①Lit cover over, atone for
79:10 Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
Let vengeance for the blood of Your servants which has been shed
Be known among the nations in our sight.
79:11 Let the groaning of the prisoner come before You;
According to the greatness of Your ①power, let ②those who are doomed to die remain.
▷ ①Lit arm ②Lit the sons of death
79:12 And return to our neighbors seven times as much into their lap
Their taunts with which they have taunted You, Lord.
79:13 So we Your people and the sheep of Your ①pasture
Will give thanks to You forever;
To all generations we will tell of Your praise.
▷ ①Or pasturing