Psalms 79




acv@Psalms:79:1 @ O God, the nations have come into thine inheritance. They have defiled thy holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

acv@Psalms:79:2 @ They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be food to the birds of the heavens, the flesh of thy sanctified to the beasts of the earth.

acv@Psalms:79:3 @ They have shed their blood like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.

acv@Psalms:79:4 @ We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are round about us.

acv@Psalms:79:5 @ How long, O LORD? will thou be angry forever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

acv@Psalms:79:6 @ Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that do not know thee, and upon the kingdoms that do not call upon thy name.

acv@Psalms:79:7 @ For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.

acv@Psalms:79:8 @ Do not remember against us the iniquities of our forefathers. Let thy tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are brought very low.

acv@Psalms:79:9 @ Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name. And deliver us, and forgive our sins, for thy name's sake.

acv@Psalms:79:10 @ Why should the nations say, Where is their God? Let the avenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed be known among the nations in our sight.

acv@Psalms:79:11 @ Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee. According to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those who are appointed to death,

acv@Psalms:79:12 @ and render to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached thee, O LORD,

acv@Psalms:79:13 @ so we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks forever. We will show forth thy praise to all generations.


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