79:1  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.

79:2  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.

79:3  Their blood they have poured out like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.

79:4  [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.

79:5  How long, O Lord? Will You be angry forever? Shall Your jealousy [which cannot endure a divided allegiance] burn like fire?

79:6  Pour out Your wrath on the Gentile nations who do not acknowledge You, and upon the kingdoms that do not call on Your name.

79:7  For they have devoured Jacob and laid waste his dwelling {and} his pasture.

79:8  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.

79:9  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.

79:10  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].

79:11  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!

79:12  And return into the bosom of our neighbors sevenfold the taunts with which they have taunted {and} scoffed at You, O Lord!

79:13  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.