Psalms 79:1-10

¹A psalm of Asaph. God, foreign nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have turned Jerusalem into a heap of ruins.

²They have given the dead bodies of your servants as food to the birds of the skies, the bodies of your faithful people to the beasts of the earth.

³They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.

⁴We have become a reproach for our neighbors, mocking and derision to those who are around us.

⁵How long, Yahweh? Will you stay angry forever? How long will your jealous anger burn like fire?

⁶Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you and on the kingdoms that do not call upon your name.

⁷For they have devoured Jacob and destroyed his villages.

⁸Do not hold the sins of our forefathers against us; may your merciful actions come to us, for we are very low.

⁹Help us, God of our salvation, for the sake of the glory of your name; save us and forgive our sins for your name's sake.

¹⁰Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” May the blood of your servants that was shed be avenged on the nations before our eyes.