Psalms 78:1-5

¹A psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathens are come into thy inheritance, they have defiled thy holy temple: they have made Jerusalem as a place to keep fruit.

²They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be meat for the fowls of the air: the flesh of thy saints for the beasts of the earth.

³They have poured out their blood as water, round about Jerusalem and there was none to bury them.

⁴We are become a reproach to our neighbours: a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

⁵How long, O Lord, wilt thou be angry for ever: shall thy zeal be kindled like a fire?