Thematic Bible
Psalm 79:1 (show verse)
God, nations have invaded your land to desecrate your holy Temple, to destroy Jerusalem,
Psalm 79:2 (show verse)
to give the corpses of your servants as food for the birds of the skies and the flesh of your godly ones to the beasts of the earth;
Psalm 79:3 (show verse)
to make their blood flow like water around Jerusalem, with no one being buried.
Psalm 79:4 (show verse)
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and a derision to those around us.
Psalm 79:5 (show verse)
How long, LORD, will you be angry? Forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
Psalm 79:6 (show verse)
Pour out your wrath upon the nations that do not acknowledge you, and over the kingdoms that do not call on your name.
Psalm 79:7 (show verse)
For they consumed Jacob, making his dwelling place desolate.
Psalm 79:8 (show verse)
Don't charge us for previous iniquity, but let your compassion come quickly to us, for we have been brought very low.
Psalm 79:9 (show verse)
Help us, God, our deliverer, on account of your glorious name, deliver us and forgive our sins on account of your name.
Psalm 79:10 (show verse)
Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let vengeance for the blood of your servants be meted out before our eyes and among the nations.
Psalm 79:11 (show verse)
Let the cries of the prisoners reach you. With the strength of your power, release those condemned to death.
Psalm 79:12 (show verse)
Pay back our neighbors seven times the reproach with which they reproached you, LORD.
Psalm 79:13 (show verse)
Then we, your people, the sheep of your pasture, will praise you always, from generation to generation. We will declare your praise. For the Director of Music: According to "The Lilies". A testimony of Asaph. A psalm.