Psalms 79
79
Prayer in a Time of National Disaster
Asaph’s poetic song
1God, won’t you do something?
Barbarians have invaded your inheritance.
Your temple of holiness has been violated,
and Jerusalem has been left in ruins.
2The corpses of your loving people are lying in the open—
food for the beasts and the birds.
3The shed blood of your servants has soaked the city,
with no one left to bury the dead.
4Now the nearby nations heap their scorn upon us,
scoffing, mocking us incessantly.
5How much longer, O Yahweh, must we endure this?
Does your anger have no end?
Will your jealousy burn like a raging fire?
6If you’re going to pour out your anger,
pour it out on all these nations around us, not on us!
They’re the ones who do not love you like we do!
7See how they’ve attacked us, consuming the land,
leaving it desolate.
8Please, God, don’t hold the sins of our fathers against us.
Don’t make us pay for their sins.
Hurry to our side, and let your tenderhearted mercy
meet us in our need, for we are devastated beyond belief.
9Our hero, come and rescue us!
O God of the breakthrough, for the glory of your name,
come and help us!
Forgive and restore us; heal us and cover us in your love.
10Why should all the nations sneer at us, saying,
“Where is this God of yours?”
Now is the time, Lord.
Show your people and all the world that
you will avenge this slaughter and bloodshed once and for all!
11Listen, Lord! Hear the sighing of all the prisoners of war,
all those doomed to die. Demonstrate your glory-power,
and come and rescue your condemned children!
12Lord God, take what these mocking masses have done to us
and pay it all back to them seven times over.
13Then we, your devoted lovers, will forever thank you,
praising your name from generation to generation!
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PSALM 79.
1Unto the end, for them that shall he changed, a testimony for Asaph, a psalm.
2Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep. Thou that sittest upon the cherubims, shine forth
3before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses. Stir up thy might, and come to save us.
4Convert us, O God: and shew us thy face, and we shall be saved.
5O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy servant?
6How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: and give us for our drink tears in measure?
7Thou hast made us to be a contradiction to our neighbours: and our enemies have scoffed at us.
8O God of hosts, convert us: and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.
9Thou hast brought a vineyard out of Egypt: thou hast cast cut the Gentiles and planted it.
10Thou wast the guide of its journey in its sight: thou plantedst the roots thereof, and it filled the land.
11The shadow of it covered the hills: and the branches thereof the cedars of God.
12It stretched forth its branches unto the sea, and its boughs unto the river.
13Why hast thou broken down the hedge thereof, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck it?
14The boar out of the wood hath laid it waste: and a singular wild beast hath devoured it.
15Turn again, O God of hosts, look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vineyard:
16And perfect the same which thy right hand hath planted: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.
17Things set on fire and dug down shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
18Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.
19And we depart not from thee, thou shalt quicken us: and we will call upon thy name.
20O Lord God of hosts, convert us: and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.
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