# Psalm 79 [[Ps-78|← Psalm 78]] | [[Psalm]] | [[Ps-80|Psalm 80 →]] *** ###### v1 God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps. ###### v2 They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth. ###### v3 They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them. ###### v4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us. ###### v5 How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire? ###### v6 Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you, on the kingdoms that don't call on your name; ###### v7 for they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland. ###### v8 Don't hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need. ###### v9 Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name's sake. ###### v10 Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants' blood is being poured out. ###### v11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death. ###### v12 Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord. ###### v13 So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations. *** [[Ps-78|← Psalm 78]] | [[Psalm]] | [[Ps-80|Psalm 80 →]]