Psalms 79 : 1 (ESV)
A PSALM OF ASAPH.O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
Psalms 79 : 2 (ESV)
They have given the bodies of your servants to the birds of the heavens for food, the flesh of your faithful to the beasts of the earth.
Psalms 79 : 3 (ESV)
They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.
Psalms 79 : 4 (ESV)
We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those around us.
Psalms 79 : 5 (ESV)
How long, O LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
Psalms 79 : 6 (ESV)
Pour out your anger on the nations that do not know you, and on the kingdoms that do not call upon your name!
Psalms 79 : 7 (ESV)
For they have devoured Jacob and laid waste his habitation.
Psalms 79 : 8 (ESV)
Do not remember against us our former iniquities; let your compassion come speedily to meet us, for we are brought very low.
Psalms 79 : 9 (ESV)
Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; deliver us, and atone for our sins, for your name's sake!
Psalms 79 : 10 (ESV)
Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes!
Psalms 79 : 11 (ESV)
Let the groans of the prisoners come before you; according to your great power, preserve those doomed to die!
Psalms 79 : 12 (ESV)
Return sevenfold into the lap of our neighbors the taunts with which they have taunted you, O Lord!
Psalms 79 : 13 (ESV)
But we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will give thanks to you forever; from generation to generation we will recount your praise.
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