Psalm 79:1 · WEB

God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

Psalm 79:2 · WEB

They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.

Psalm 79:3 · WEB

They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

Psalm 79:4 · WEB

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

Psalm 79:5 · WEB

How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”

Psalm 79:6 · WEB

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name,

Psalm 79:7 · WEB

for they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.

Psalm 79:8 · WEB

Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.

Psalm 79:9 · WEB

Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.

Psalm 79:10 · WEB

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.

Psalm 79:11 · WEB

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.

Psalm 79:12 · WEB

Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

Psalm 79:13 · WEB

So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.