Psalms 79

¹The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance;

²They have given the corpses of Your servants

³They have poured out their blood like water

⁴We have become a reproach to our neighbors,

⁵How long, O LORD?

⁶Pour out Your wrath on the nations

⁷for they have devoured Jacob

⁸Do not hold past sins against us;

⁹Help us, O God of our salvation,

¹⁰Why should the nations ask,

¹¹May the groans of the captives reach You;

¹²Pay back into the laps of our neighbors

¹³Then we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture,