Thematic Bible
Psalm 79:1 (show verse)
O God, nations, Have entered thine inheritance, Have profaned thy holy temple, - Have laid Jerusalem in heaps:
Psalm 79:2 (show verse)
Psalm 79:3 (show verse)
They have poured out their blood like water, Round about Jerusalem, With none to bury.
Psalm 79:4 (show verse)
We have become, A reproach to our neighbours, - A mockery and a derision, to them who are round about us.
Psalm 79:5 (show verse)
How long, O Yahweh, wilt thou be angry utterly? Shall thy jealousy, burn like fire?
Psalm 79:6 (show verse)
Pour out thy wrath, Upon the nations that have not known thee - and, Upon the kingdoms that, on thy Name, have not called.
Psalm 79:7 (show verse)
For he hath devoured Jacob, - And, his dwelling-place, have they laid waste.
Psalm 79:8 (show verse)
Do not remember against us former iniquities, - Haste thee, let thy compassions, come to meet us, For we have been brought very low!
Psalm 79:9 (show verse)
Help us, O God of our salvation, on account of the glory of thy Name, - Rescue us then, and put a propitiatory-covering over our sins, For the sake of thy Name.
Psalm 79:10 (show verse)
Wherefore should the nations say - Where is their God? Let him be known among the nations before our eyes! Yea! By the avenging of the blood of thy servants which hath been shed!
Psalm 79:11 (show verse)
Let the groaning of the prisoner, come in before thee, - According to the greatness of thine arm, Set free them who are appointed to death.
Psalm 79:12 (show verse)
Return, therefore, unto our neighbours - Sevenfold, into their own bosom, The reproach wherewith they have reproached thee, O Adonay!
Psalm 79:13 (show verse)
So, we, thy people, and the sheep of thy pasture, will give thanks unto thee, to times age-abiding, - To generation after generation, will we recount thy praise.