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. |