Psalms 79
World English BibleTranslation
World English Bible
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
1Unto the end, for them that shall he changed, a testimony for Asaph, a psalm.
2They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.
2Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep. Thou that sittest upon the cherubims, shine forth
3They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.
3Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses. Stir up thy might, and come to save us.
4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
4Convert us, O God: and shew us thy face, and we shall be saved.
5How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
5O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy servant?
6Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name,
6How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: and give us for our drink tears in measure?
7for they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.
7Thou hast made us to be a contradiction to our neighbours: and our enemies have scoffed at us.
8Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.
8O God of hosts, convert us: and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.
9Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.
9Thou hast brought a vineyard out of Egypt: thou hast cast cut the Gentiles and planted it.
10Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.
10Thou wast the guide of its journey in its sight: thou plantedst the roots thereof, and it filled the land.
11Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.
11The shadow of it covered the hills: and the branches thereof the cedars of God.
12Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
12It stretched forth its branches unto the sea, and its boughs unto the river.
13So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.
13Why hast thou broken down the hedge thereof, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck it?
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14The boar out of the wood hath laid it waste: and a singular wild beast hath devoured it.
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15Turn again, O God of hosts, look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vineyard:
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16And perfect the same which thy right hand hath planted: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.
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17Things set on fire and dug down shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
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18Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.
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19And we depart not from thee, thou shalt quicken us: and we will call upon thy name.
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20O Lord God of hosts, convert us: and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.
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