Psalm 79.A Prayer for the Nation’s Deliverance.

O God, the heathen have invaded your land.
They have desecrated your holy Temple
and left Jerusalem in ruins.

2 They left the bodies of your people for the vultures,
the bodies of your servants for wild animals to eat.

3 They shed your people’s blood like water;
blood flowed like water all through Jerusalem,
and no one was left to bury the dead.

4 The surrounding nations insult us;
they laugh at us and mock us.

5 Lord, will you be angry with us forever?
Will your anger continue to burn like fire?

6 Turn your anger on the nations that do not worship you,
on the people who do not pray to you.

7 For they have killed your people;
they have ruined your country.

8 Do not punish us for the sins of our ancestors.
Have mercy on…