Psalms 79:1-9 ▼

1 A PSALM OF ASAPH. O God, nations have come into Your inheritance, || They have defiled Your holy temple, || They made Jerusalem become heaps,

2 They gave the dead bodies of Your servants || [As] food for the birds of the heavens, || The flesh of Your saints || For the wild beast of the earth.

3 They have shed their blood || As water around Jerusalem, || And there is none burying.

4 We have been a reproach to our neighbors, || A scorn and a derision to our surrounders.

5 Until when, O YHWH? Are You angry forever? Your jealousy burns as fire.

6 Pour Your fury on the nations who have not known You, || And on kingdoms that have not called on Your Name.

7 For [one] has devoured Jacob, || And they have made his habitation desolate.

8 Do not remember for us the iniquities of forefathers, || Hurry, let Your mercies go before us, || For we have been very weak.

9 Help us, O God of our salvation, || Because of the glory of Your Name, || And deliver us, and cover over our sins, || For Your Name’s sake.