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         <div class="label">79</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Psalm 79</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">sn Psalm 79. The author laments how the invading nations have destroyed the temple and city of Jerusalem. He asks God to forgive his people and to pour out his vengeance on those who have mistreated them.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">A psalm of Asaph.</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.79.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content"> O God, foreigners</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn Or &#8220;nations.&#8221;</span></span></span><span class="content"> have invaded your chosen land;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn Heb &#8220;have come into your inheritance.&#8221;</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.79.1"><span class="content">they have polluted your holy temple</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.79.1"><span class="content">and turned Jerusalem</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.</span></span></span><span class="content"> into a heap of ruins.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.79.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content"> They have given the corpses of your servants</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.79.2"><span class="content">to the birds of the sky;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn Heb &#8220;[as] food for the birds of the sky.&#8221;</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.79.2"><span class="content">the flesh of your loyal followers</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.79.2"><span class="content">to the beasts of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.79.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content"> They have made their blood flow like water</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.79.3"><span class="content">all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury them.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn Heb &#8220;they have poured out their blood like water, all around Jerusalem, and there is no one burying.&#8221;</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.79.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content"> We have become an object of disdain to our neighbors;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.79.4"><span class="content">those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn Heb &#8220;an [object of] taunting and [of] mockery to those around us.&#8221; See Ps 44:13.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.79.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content"> How long will this go on, O </span><span class="sc"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn Heb &#8220;How long, O Lord?&#8221;</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.79.5"><span class="content">Will you stay angry forever?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.79.5"><span class="content">How long will your rage</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn Or &#8220;jealous anger.&#8221;</span></span></span><span class="content"> burn like fire?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.79.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content"> Pour out your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn Heb &#8220;which do not know you.&#8221; Here the Hebrew term &#8220;know&#8221; means &#8220;acknowledge the authority of.&#8221;</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.79.6"><span class="content">on the kingdoms that do not pray to you!</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">sn The kingdoms that do not pray to you. The people of these kingdoms pray to other gods, not the Lord, because they do not recognize his authority over them.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.79.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content"> For they have devoured Jacob</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.79.7"><span class="content">and destroyed his home.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.79.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content"> Do not hold us accountable for the sins of earlier generations!</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn Heb &#8220;do not remember against us sins, former.&#8221; Some understand &#8220;former&#8221; as an attributive adjective modifying sins, &#8220;former [i.e., chronologically prior] sins&#8221; (see BDB 911 s.v. &#1512;&#1460;&#1488;&#1513;&#1473;&#1493;&#1465;&#1503;). The present translation assumes that &#1512;&#1488;&#1513;&#1473;&#1504;&#1497;&#1501; (&#8220;former&#8221;) here refers to those who lived formerly, that is, the people&#8217;s ancestors (see Lam 5:7). The word is used in this way in Lev 26:45; Deut 19:14 and Eccl 1:11.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.79.8"><span class="content">Quickly send your compassion our way,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn Heb &#8220;may your compassion quickly confront us.&#8221; The prefixed verbal form is understood as a jussive, indicating a tone of prayer.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.79.8"><span class="content">for we are in serious trouble!</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn Heb &#8220;for we are very low.&#8221;</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.79.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content"> Help us, O God, our deliverer!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.79.9"><span class="content">For the sake of your glorious reputation,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn Heb &#8220;the glory of your name.&#8221; Here and in the following line &#8220;name&#8221; stands metonymically for God&#8217;s reputation.</span></span></span><span class="content"> rescue us!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.79.9"><span class="content">Forgive our sins for the sake of your reputation!</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn Heb &#8220;your name.&#8221;</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.79.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content"> Why should the nations say, &#8220;Where is their God?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.79.10"><span class="content">Before our very eyes may the shed blood of your servants</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.79.10"><span class="content">be avenged among the nations!</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn Heb &#8220;may it be known among the nations, to our eyes, the vengeance of the shed blood of your servants.&#8221;</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.79.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content"> Listen to the painful cries of the prisoners!</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn Heb &#8220;may the painful cry of the prisoner come before you.&#8221;</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.79.11"><span class="content">Use your great strength to set free those condemned to die!</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn Heb &#8220;according to the greatness of your arm leave the sons of death.&#8221; God&#8217;s &#8220;arm&#8221; here symbolizes his strength to deliver. The verbal form &#1492;&#1493;&#1465;&#1514;&#1461;&#1512; (hoter) is a Hiphil imperative from &#1497;&#1464;&#1514;&#1463;&#1512; (yatar, &#8220;to remain; to be left over&#8221;). Here it must mean &#8220;to leave over; to preserve.&#8221; However, it is preferable to emend the form to &#1492;&#1463;&#1514;&#1468;&#1461;&#1512; (hatter), a Hiphil imperative from &#1504;&#1464;&#1514;&#1463;&#1512; (natar, &#8220;be free&#8221;). The Hiphil form is used in Ps 105:20 of Pharaoh freeing Joseph from prison. The phrase &#8220;sons of death&#8221; (see also Ps 102:21) is idiomatic for those condemned to die.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.79.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content"> Pay back our neighbors in full!</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn Heb &#8220;Return to our neighbors sevenfold into their lap.&#8221; The number seven is used rhetorically to express the thorough nature of the action. For other rhetorical/figurative uses of the Hebrew phrase &#1513;&#1473;&#1460;&#1489;&#1456;&#1506;&#1464;&#1514;&#1463;&#1497;&#1460;&#1501; (shiv&#8217;atayim, &#8220;seven times&#8221;) see Gen 4:15, 24; Ps 12:6; Prov 6:31; Isa 30:26.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.79.12"><span class="content">May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord!</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn Heb &#8220;their reproach with which they reproached you, O Lord.&#8221;</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.79.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content"> Then we, your people, the sheep of your pasture,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.79.13"><span class="content">will continually thank you.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn Or (hyperbolically) &#8220;will thank you forever.&#8221;</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.79.13"><span class="content">We will tell coming generations of your praiseworthy acts.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn Heb &#8220;to a generation and a generation we will report your praise.&#8221; Here &#8220;praise&#8221; stands by metonymy for the mighty acts that prompt worship. Cf. Ps 9:14.</span></span></span></span></div>
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O God, foreigners have invaded your chosen land;
they have polluted your holy temple
and turned Jerusalem into a heap of ruins.
They have given the corpses of your servants
to the birds of the sky;
the flesh of your loyal followers
to the beasts of the earth.
They have made their blood flow like water
all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury them.
We have become an object of disdain to our neighbors;
those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.
How long will this go on, O LORD?
Will you stay angry forever?
How long will your rage burn like fire?
Pour out your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you,
on the kingdoms that do not pray to you!
For they have devoured Jacob
and destroyed his home.
Do not hold us accountable for the sins of earlier generations!
Quickly send your compassion our way,
for we are in serious trouble!
Help us, O God, our deliverer!
For the sake of your glorious reputation, rescue us!
Forgive our sins for the sake of your reputation!
Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
Before our very eyes may the shed blood of your servants
be avenged among the nations!
Listen to the painful cries of the prisoners!
Use your great strength to set free those condemned to die!
Pay back our neighbors in full!
May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord!
Then we, your people, the sheep of your pasture,
will continually thank you.
We will tell coming generations of your praiseworthy acts.

සවන් දෙන්න Psalms 79