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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Psalm 79
A psalm of Asaph.
1The nations have come into your inheritance, God!
They’ve defiled your holy temple.
They’ve made Jerusalem a bunch of ruins.
2They’ve left your servants’ bodies
as food for the birds;
they’ve left the flesh of your faithful
to the wild animals of the earth.
3They’ve poured out the blood of the faithful
like water all around Jerusalem,
and there’s no one left to bury them.
4We’ve become a joke to our neighbors,
nothing but objects of ridicule
and disapproval to those around us.
5How long will you rage, LORD? Forever?
How long will your anger burn like fire?
6Pour out your wrath on the nations
who don’t know you,
on the kingdoms
that haven’t called on your name.
7They’ve devoured Jacob
and demolished his pasture.
8Don’t remember the iniquities of past generations;
let your compassion hurry to meet us
because we’ve been brought so low.
9God of our salvation, help us
for the glory of your name!
Deliver us and cover our sins
for the sake of your name!
10Why should the nations say,
“Where’s their God now?”
Let vengeance for the spilled blood of your servants
be known among the nations before our very eyes!
11Let the prisoners’ groaning reach you.
With your powerful arm
spare those who are destined to die.
12Pay back our neighbors seven times over,
right where it hurts,
for the insults they used on you, Lord.
13We are, after all, your people
and the sheep of your very own pasture.
We will give you thanks forever;
we will proclaim your praises
from one generation to the next.
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