Psalms 79 A psalm of Asaph. O God, the nations have entered your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have reduced Jerusalem to ruins.

VIN⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ A psalm of Asaph. O God, the nations have entered your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have reduced Jerusalem to ruins. ² They have given the bodies of your servants as food to the birds of the air, and the flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth. ³ They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them. ⁴ We are become a reproach to our neighbours; A scoff and a derision to them around us. ⁵ How long, O LORD, wilt Thou be angry for ever? How long will Thy jealousy burn like fire? ⁶ Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you; on the kingdoms that do not call on your name; ⁷ for they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland. ⁸ Do not keep in mind against us the sins of our fathers; let your mercy come to us quickly, for we have been made very low. ⁹ Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name's sake. 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 Let the cries of the prisoners reach you. With the strength of your power, release those condemned to death. ¹² Pay back our neighbors seven times the reproach with which they reproached you, LORD. ¹³ Then we, your people, the sheep of your pasture, will praise you always, from generation to generation. We will declare your praise.