| Psa. 79:1 |
O God, the nations have come into Your inheritance; / They have defiled Your holy temple; / They have turned Jerusalem into heaps. |
| Psa. 79:2 |
They have given the dead bodies of Your servants / As food for the birds of heaven, / The flesh of Your saints to the animals of the earth. |
| Psa. 79:3 |
They have poured out their blood like water around Jerusalem, / And there was no one to bury [them.] |
| Psa. 79:4 |
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, / A mocking and a derision to those around us. |
| Psa. 79:5 |
How long, O Jehovah? Will You be angry forever? / Will Your jealousy burn like fire? |
| Psa. 79:6 |
Pour out Your wrath upon the nations / Who do not know You, / And upon the kingdoms / Who do not call upon Your name. |
| Psa. 79:7 |
For they have devoured Jacob / And have desolated his habitation. |
| Psa. 79:8 |
Do not remember against us the iniquities of [our] forefathers; / May Your compassions quickly meet us, / For we have been brought very low. |
| Psa. 79:9 |
Help us, O God of our salvation, / For the glory of Your name; / And deliver us and expiate our sins, / For Your name's sake. |
| Psa. 79:10 |
Why should the nations say, / Where is their God? / May the avenging of the blood of Your servants, which has been poured out, / Be known among the nations in our sight. |
| Psa. 79:11 |
May the sighing of the prisoner come before You. / According to the greatness of Your power preserve those appointed to die, |
| Psa. 79:12 |
And render to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom / Their reproach, with which they have reproached You, O Lord. |
| Psa. 79:13 |
And we, Your people and the sheep of Your pasture, / Will give You thanks forever; / From generation to generation we will tell out Your praise. |