Psalm 79:1-Psalm 80:1 - Faith Amid Confusion

¹ A psalm of Asaph.God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance,
desecrated Your holy temple,
and turned Jerusalem into ruins.
² They gave the corpses of Your servants
to the birds of the sky for food,
the flesh of Your godly ones
to the beasts of the earth.
³ They poured out their blood
like water all around Jerusalem,
and there was no one to bury them.
⁴ We have become an object of reproach
to our neighbors,
a source of mockery and ridicule
to those around us.

⁵ How long, Yahweh? Will You be angry forever?
Will Your jealousy keep burning like fire?
⁶ Pour out Your wrath on the nations
that don’t acknowledge You,
on the kingdoms that don’t call on Your name,
⁷ for they have devoured Jacob
and devastated his homeland.
⁸ Do not hold past sins against us;
let Your compassion come to us quickly,
for we have become weak.

⁹ God of our salvation, help us—
for the glory of Your name.
Deliver us and atone for our sins,
because of Your name.
¹⁰ Why should the nations ask,
“Where is their God?”
Before our eyes,
let vengeance for the shed blood of Your servants
be known among the nations.
¹¹ Let the groans of the prisoners reach You;
according to Your great power,
preserve those condemned to die.

¹² Pay back sevenfold to our neighbors
the reproach they have hurled at You, Lord.
¹³ Then we, Your people, the sheep of Your pasture,
will thank You forever;
we will declare Your praise
to generation after generation.

¹ For the choir director: according to “The Lilies.” A testimony of Asaph. A psalm.Listen, Shepherd of Israel,
who leads Joseph like a flock;
You who sit enthroned on the cherubim,
rise up