| 1 | O God, the nations have come into [the land of Your people] Your inheritance; Your sacred temple have they defiled; they have made Jerusalem heaps of ruins. |
| 2 | The dead bodies of Your servants they have given as food to the birds of the heavens, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth. |
| 3 | Their blood they have poured out like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them. |
| 4 | [Because of such humiliation] we have become a taunt
and
reproach to our neighbors, a mocking and derision to those who are round about us. |
| 5 | How long, O Lord? Will You be angry forever? Shall Your jealousy [which cannot endure a divided allegiance] burn like fire? |
| 6 | Pour out Your wrath on the Gentile nations who do not acknowledge You, and upon the kingdoms that do not call on Your name. |
| 7 | For they have devoured Jacob and laid waste his dwelling
and
his pasture. |
| 8 | O do not [earnestly] remember against us the iniquities
and
guilt of our forefathers! Let Your compassion
and
tender mercy speedily come to meet us, for we are brought very low. |
| 9 | Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name! Deliver us, forgive us,
and
purge away our sins for Your name’s sake. |
| 10 | Why should the Gentile nations say, Where is their God? Let vengeance for the blood of Your servants which is poured out be known among the nations in our sight [not delaying until some future generation]. |
| 11 | Let the groaning
and
sighing of the prisoner come before You; according to the greatness of Your power
and
Your arm spare those who are appointed to die! |
| 12 | And return into the bosom of our neighbors sevenfold the taunts with which they have taunted
and
scoffed at You, O Lord! |
| 13 | Then we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, will give You thanks forever; we will show forth
and
publish Your praise from generation to generation. |
Cross references:
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Psalm 79:6 : II Thess. 1:8.
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