79 O God, the nations have entered your inheritance;
they have defiled your holy temple;
they have reduced Jerusalem to ruins.
² They have given the bodies of your servants
as food for the birds of the heavens,
the flesh of your faithful to the beasts of the earth.
³ They have poured out their blood like water
all around Jerusalem,
and there was none to bury them.
⁴ We have become a taunt to our neighbors,
a derision and a scorn to those around us.
⁵ How long, O Yahweh? Will you be angry forever?
Will your jealousy burn like fire?
⁶ Pour out your anger on the nations
that do not know you,
and on the kingdoms
that do not call on your name,
⁷ because they^[b] have devoured Jacob
and have laid waste his habitation.
⁸ Do not remember against us former iniquities;
let your mercies meet us quickly
because we are brought very low.
⁹ Help us, O God of our salvation,
for the glory of your name;
and deliver us and forgive^[c] our sins
for the sake of your name.
¹⁰ Why should the nations say,
“Where is their God?”
Let it^[d] be known among the nations before our eyes,
by the avenging of the blood of your servants
that was poured out.
¹¹ Let the groaning of the prisoner come before you.
According to the greatness of your power,^[e]
spare^[f] the children appointed to death.
¹² And return to our neighbors sevenfold upon them^[g]
their taunts with which they taunted you, O Lord.
¹³ Then we, your people and the flock of your pasture,
we will give thanks to you forever.
Generation after generation^[h]
we will tell of your praise.