Psalms 79
A Prayer for Deliverance
A Psalm of Asaph.
1They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.2They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.
3We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.
4How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
5Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,
6for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.
7Do not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come quickly, for we are brought low.
8Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; deliver us and atone for our sins, for the sake of Your name.
9Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.
10May the groans of the captives reach You; by the strength of Your arm preserve those condemned to death.
11Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.
12Then we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, will thank You forever; from generation to generation we will declare Your praise.