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# Psalms 79

[1](#verse-1) God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

[2](#verse-2) 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.

[3](#verse-3) They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

[4](#verse-4) We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

[5](#verse-5) How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

[6](#verse-6) Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name,

[7](#verse-7) for they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.

[8](#verse-8) Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.

[9](#verse-9) Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.

[10](#verse-10) 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.

[11](#verse-11) Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.

[12](#verse-12) Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

[13](#verse-13) So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.

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