Psalms
79
- O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance;
they have defiled your holy temple, they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
- They have given the dead bodies of your
servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of your saints to the
beasts of the earth.
- They have poured out blood like water all
around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.
- We are objects of reproach to our neighbors,
of scorn and derision to those around us.
- How long, O LORD? Will you be angry forever?
How long will your jealousy burn like fire ?
- Pour out your wrath on the nations that
do not acknowledge you, on the kingdoms that do not call on your name;
- for they have devoured Jacob and destroyed
his homeland.
- Do not hold against us the sins of the fathers;
may your mercy come quickly to meet us, for we are in desperate need.
- Help us, O God our Savior, for the glory
of your name; deliver us and forgive our sins for your name's sake.
- Why should the nations say, "Where
is their God?" Before our eyes, make known among the nations that you
avenge the outpoured blood of your servants.
- May the groans of the prisoners come before
you; by the strength of your arm preserve those condemned to die.
- Pay back into the laps of our neighbors
seven times the reproach they have hurled at you, O Lord.
- Then we your people, the sheep of your pasture,
will praise you forever; from generation to generation we will recount your
praise.
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