Psalms - Chapter 79 | Good News Translation

  • 1. O God, the heathen have invaded your land. They have desecrated your holy Temple and left Jerusalem in ruins.
  • 2. They left the bodies of your people for the vultures, the bodies of your servants for wild animals to eat.
  • 3. They shed your people's blood like water; blood flowed like water all through Jerusalem, and no one was left to bury the dead.
  • 4. The surrounding nations insult us; they laugh at us and mock us.
  • 5. LORD, will you be angry with us forever? Will your anger continue to burn like fire?
  • 6. Turn your anger on the nations that do not worship you, on the people who do not pray to you.
  • 7. For they have killed your people; they have ruined your country.
  • 8. Do not punish us for the sins of our ancestors. Have mercy on us now; we have lost all hope.
  • 9. Help us, O God, and save us; rescue us and forgive our sins for the sake of your own honor.
  • 10. Why should the nations ask us, "Where is your God?" Let us see you punish the nations for shedding the blood of your servants.
  • 11. Listen to the groans of the prisoners, and by your great power free those who are condemned to die.
  • 12. Lord, pay the other nations back seven times for all the insults they have hurled at you.
  • 13. Then we, your people, the sheep of your flock, will thank you forever and praise you for all time to come.
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