Psalms 79

CLV(i) 1 {An Asaphic Psalm{ O Elohim, the nations have entered Your allotment; They have defiled Your holy Temple; They have turned Jerusalem into rubbish heaps." 2 They have given the carcasses of Your servants as food for the flyer of the heavens, The flesh of Your benign ones to the wild animal of the earth." 3 They have poured out their blood like water, around Jerusalem, And there was no one entombing them." 4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, A derision and a scoffing to those round about us." 5 How long, O Yahweh? Shall You be angry permanently? How long shall Your jealousy consume like a fire? 6 Pour out Your fury on the nations that do not know You, And on kingdoms that do not call on Your Name." 7 For they have devoured Jacob, And they have desolated his homestead." 8 Do not hold against us the depravities of former generations; Let Your compassions quickly confront us, For we are very impoverished." 9 Help us, O Elohim of our salvation, on behalf of the glory of Your Name; Rescue us and make a propitiatory shelter over our sins on account of Your Name." 10 Why should the nations say, Where is their Elohim? Let it be made known among the nations before our eyes:Vengeance for the shed blood of Your servants." 11 May the groaning of the bound one come before You; According to the greatness of Your arm reserve the sons of death. 12 Turn back sevenfold to our neighbors, into their bosom, Their reproach with which they reproached You, O Yahweh." 13 Then we, Your people and the flock of Your pasture, We shall acclaim You for the eon; For generation after generation we shall recount Your praise. {Permanent{ {Concerning Elations {Anemones{, A Testimony{ "