Psalms 79
79
Prayer in a Time of National Disaster
Asaph’s poetic song
1God, won’t you do something?
Barbarians have invaded your inheritance.
Your temple of holiness has been violated,
and Jerusalem has been left in ruins.
2The corpses of your loving people are lying in the open—
food for the beasts and the birds.
3The shed blood of your servants has soaked the city,
with no one left to bury the dead.
4Now the nearby nations heap their scorn upon us,
scoffing, mocking us incessantly.
5How much longer, O Yahweh, must we endure this?
Does your anger have no end?
Will your jealousy burn like a raging fire?
6If you’re going to pour out your anger,
pour it out on all these nations around us, not on us!
They’re the ones who do not love you like we do!
7See how they’ve attacked us, consuming the land,
leaving it desolate.
8Please, God, don’t hold the sins of our fathers against us.
Don’t make us pay for their sins.
Hurry to our side, and let your tenderhearted mercy
meet us in our need, for we are devastated beyond belief.
9Our hero, come and rescue us!
O God of the breakthrough, for the glory of your name,
come and help us!
Forgive and restore us; heal us and cover us in your love.
10Why should all the nations sneer at us, saying,
“Where is this God of yours?”
Now is the time, Lord.
Show your people and all the world that
you will avenge this slaughter and bloodshed once and for all!
11Listen, Lord! Hear the sighing of all the prisoners of war,
all those doomed to die. Demonstrate your glory-power,
and come and rescue your condemned children!
12Lord God, take what these mocking masses have done to us
and pay it all back to them seven times over.
13Then we, your devoted lovers, will forever thank you,
praising your name from generation to generation!
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79
A Psalm of Asaph.
1O God, the nations have come into Your inheritance;
Your holy temple they have defiled;
they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
2#Ps 63:1; 84:2 The dead bodies of Your servants
they have given to the birds of the sky for food
and the flesh of Your faithful to the animals of the land.
3#Ps 79:10; 80:5 Their blood they have poured out like water
all around Jerusalem,
and there was no one to bury them.
4#Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8 We have become a reproach to our neighbors,
a scorn and derision to those who are around us.
5#Ps 42:11; 43:5 How long, O Lord? Will You be angry forever?
Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
6#2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8–9 Pour out Your wrath
upon the nations who do not know You,
and upon the kingdoms
who have not called upon Your name.
7#Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3 For they have devoured Jacob,
and laid waste his dwelling place.
8#Job 35:10; Ps 63:6 Do not choose to remember our former iniquities;
let Your tender mercies come swiftly to us,
for we are brought very low.
9#Ps 38:6; 18:2 Help us, O God of our salvation,
for the glory of Your name;
deliver us, and purge away our sins,
for Your name’s sake.
10#Ps 42:3; Joel 2:17 Why should the nations say,
“Where is their God?”
May the avenging of the shed blood of Your servants
be known among the nations before our eyes.
11#Ps 42:5; 43:5 Let the groans of the prisoners come before You;
according to the greatness of Your power
preserve those who are appointed to die.
12And render unto our neighbors sevenfold into their lap
the reproach that they have reproached You, O Lord.
13But we are Your people, the sheep of Your pasture,
and will give You thanks forever;
we will declare Your praise
to all generations.
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