Psalms 79:8-13 ▼

8 Don't charge us for previous iniquity, but let your compassion come quickly to us, for we have been brought very low.

9 Help us, God, our deliverer, on account of your glorious name, deliver us and forgive our sins on account of your name.

10 Why should the nations say, |Where is their God?| Let vengeance for the blood of your servants be meted out before our eyes and among the nations.

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.