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Psalms 79

¹O God, the heathen have invaded your land. They have desecrated your holy Temple and left Jerusalem in ruins.

²They left the bodies of your people for the vultures, the bodies of your servants for wild animals to eat.

³They shed your people's blood like water; blood flowed like water all through Jerusalem, and no one was left to bury the dead.

⁴The surrounding nations insult us; they laugh at us and mock us.

⁵LORD, will you be angry with us forever? Will your anger continue to burn like fire?

⁶Turn your anger on the nations that do not worship you, on the people who do not pray to you.

⁷For they have killed your people; they have ruined your country.

⁸Do not punish us for the sins of our ancestors. Have mercy on us now; we have lost all hope.

⁹Help us, O God, and save us; rescue us and forgive our sins for the sake of your own honor.

¹⁰Why should the nations ask us, "Where is your God?" Let us see you punish the nations for shedding the blood of your servants.

¹¹Listen to the groans of the prisoners, and by your great power free those who are condemned to die.

¹²Lord, pay the other nations back seven times for all the insults they have hurled at you.

¹³Then we, your people, the sheep of your flock, will thank you forever and praise you for all time to come.