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Psalms 79

About Psalms Psalms is Israel's book of prayers and songs: praise, lament, thanks and trust, for every season of life.

O GOD, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.SelectedPsalms 79:1Ask

The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.SelectedPsalms 79:2Ask

Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.SelectedPsalms 79:3Ask

We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.SelectedPsalms 79:4Ask

How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?SelectedPsalms 79:5Ask

Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.SelectedPsalms 79:6Ask

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.SelectedPsalms 79:7Ask

O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.SelectedPsalms 79:8Ask

Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name’s sake.SelectedPsalms 79:9Ask

Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.SelectedPsalms 79:10Ask

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;SelectedPsalms 79:11Ask

And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.SelectedPsalms 79:12Ask

So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.SelectedPsalms 79:13Ask

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