Psalm 79

A psalm. Of Asaph. God, nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled the temple of your holiness; they have made Jerusalem into heaps. 2 They have given the corpse of your servants {as} food to the bird of the heavens, the flesh of your faithful to the beast of the earth. 3 They have poured out their blood like water around Jerusalem, and there is no burying. \* 4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, scorn and derision to the ones around us. 5 Until when, God? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire? \* 6 Pour out your wrath on the nations that have not known you and on the kingdoms that have not called on your name. 7 For one has devoured Jacob, and they have desolated his habitation. \* 8 Do not remember former iniquities against us; hasten, let your compassions meet us, for we have become very weak. 9 Help us, God of our salvation, on account of the glory of your name, and deliver us and cover over our sins for the sake of your name. \* 10 Why should the nations say, “Where {is} their God?” Let the vengeance of the poured-out blood of your servants be known among the nations to our eyes. 11 Let the groaning of the prisoner come to your face; according to the greatness of your arm, preserve the sons of death. \* 12 And return to our neighbors sevenfold, into their bosom, their reproach {with} which they have reproached you, Lord. 13 And we, your people and the flock of your pasture, will give thanks to you forever; to generation and generation we will recount your praise. \*