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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A psalm of Asaph.
1God, heathen nations have invaded your land. They have defiled your holy Temple. They have turned Jerusalem into heaps of rubble.
2They have given the dead bodies of your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of your faithful people to the beasts of the earth.
3They have poured out the blood of Jerusalem's people like water all through the city; no one remains to bury the dead.
4We have been made a mockery before our neighbors, ridiculed and laughed at by those around us.
5How long, Lord? Will you be angry with us forever? Will your jealousy always burn like fire?
6Pour out your anger on the heathen nations that don't know you, and on those kingdoms that don't worship you!
7For they have destroyed the descendants of Jacob, and turned our country into a wasteland.
8Don't hold the sins of our forefathers against us! Come to us quickly for we desperately need your compassion.
9Help us, God of our salvation, because of your wonderful character! Save us and forgive us our sins because that's the kind of person you are!#79:9. Literally, “for your name's sake.”
10Why should the heathen nations be able to say, “Where is their God?” May they experience your punishment for shedding the blood of your servants, and may we see it.
11Listen to the groans of the prisoners; with your great power save those condemned to die.
12Pay each of these neighbors back seven times for the scorn and ridicule they directed against you, Lord.
13Then we your people, the flock of your pasture, will praise you forever. We will thank you for all generations to come.
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