Psalms 79:1-6

¹A Psalm. Of Asaph. O God, the nations have come into your heritage; they have made your holy Temple unclean; they have made Jerusalem a mass of broken walls.

²They have given the bodies of your servants as food to the birds of the air, and the flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth.

³Their blood has been flowing like water round about Jerusalem; there was no one to put them in their last resting-place.

⁴We are looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and made sport of by those who are round us.

⁵How long, O Lord? will you be angry for ever? will your wrath go on burning like fire?

⁶Let your wrath be on the nations who have no knowledge of you, and on the kingdoms who have not made prayer to your name.