Psalms 79:4-11

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.

⁷For they have taken Jacob for their meat, and made waste his house.

⁸Do not keep in mind against us the sins of our fathers; let your mercy come to us quickly, for we have been made very low.

⁹Give us help, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; take us out of danger and give us forgiveness for our sins, because of your name.

¹⁰Why may the nations say, Where is their God? Let payment for the blood of your servants be made openly among the nations before our eyes.

¹¹Let the cry of the prisoner come before you; with your strong arm make free the children of death;