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Chapter 79
Psal NHEBME 79:1  God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
Psal NHEBME 79:2  They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your holy ones to the animals of the earth.
Psal NHEBME 79:3  Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.
Psal NHEBME 79:4  We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
Psal NHEBME 79:5  How long, Lord? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
Psal NHEBME 79:6  Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you; on the kingdoms that do not call on your name;
Psal NHEBME 79:7  For they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.
Psal NHEBME 79:8  Do not hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.
Psal NHEBME 79:9  Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name's sake.
Psal NHEBME 79:10  Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants' blood is being poured out.
Psal NHEBME 79:11  Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.
Psal NHEBME 79:12  Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
Psal NHEBME 79:13  So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.