Psalm 79, side by side

¹A Psalm of Asaph. The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.

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

²They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.

²The 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.

³They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.

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

⁴We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.

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

⁵How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

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

⁶Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,

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

⁷for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.

⁷For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

⁸Do not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come quickly, for we are brought low.

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

⁹Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; deliver us and atone for our sins, for the sake of Your name.

⁹Help 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.

¹⁰Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.

¹⁰Wherefore 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.

¹¹May the groans of the captives reach You; by the strength of Your arm preserve those condemned to death.

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

¹²Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.

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

¹³Then we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, will thank You forever; from generation to generation we will declare Your praise.

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