(A)How long, Lord?
Will You be angry forever?
Will Your (B)jealousy burn like fire?
(C)Pour out Your wrath on the [a]nations that (D)do not know You,
And on the kingdoms that (E)do not call on Your name.
For they have devoured Jacob,
And laid waste his dwelling place.

(F)Oh, do not remember [b]former iniquities against us!
Let Your tender mercies come speedily to meet us,
For we have been brought very low.
Help us, O God of our salvation,
For the glory of Your name;
And deliver us, and provide atonement for our sins,
(G)For Your name’s sake!
10 (H)Why should the [c]nations say,
“Where is their God?”
Let there be known among the nations in our sight
The avenging of the blood of Your servants which has been shed.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 79:6 Gentiles
  2. Psalm 79:8 Or against us the iniquities of those who were before us
  3. Psalm 79:10 Gentiles

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