Psalms 79:1-12

¹God, other people-groups have invaded your land. They have ◄desecrated your temple/caused your temple to be unfit for worship►, and they have destroyed all the buildings in Jerusalem.

²Instead of burying the corpses of your people whom they killed, they allowed vultures and wild anmals to eat the flesh of those corpses,

³When they killed your people, your people's blood flowed like water through the streets of Jerusalem, and there was almost no one HYP left to bury their corpses.

⁴The people-groups that live in countries that surround our land insult us; they laugh at us and deride/belittle us.

⁵Yahweh, how long will this continue? Will you be angry with us forever? Will your being angry destroy us like a burning fire destroys things?

⁶Instead of being angry with us, be angry with the people-groups that do not know/worship you! Be angry with kingdoms whose people do not pray to you,

⁷because they have killed Israeli people and they have ruined your country.

⁸Do not punish us because of the sins that our ancestors committed! Be merciful to us now/quickly, because we are very discouraged.

⁹God, you have saved/rescued us many times, so help us now; rescue us and forgive us for having sinned in order that other people will honor you MTY.

¹⁰It is not right that RHQ other people-groups say about us, “If their God is very powerful, ◄surely he should help them/why does he not help them►?” Allow us to see you punishing the people of other nations in return for their shedding our blood; they have killed many of us, your people.

¹¹Listen to your people groaning while they are in prison, and by your great power free those whom our enemies say that they will certainly execute.

¹²In return for their having often insulted you, punish them seven times as much!