Psalm 79:1-7

Good News Translation

A Prayer for the Nation's Deliverance^[a]

79 ^(A)O God, the heathen have invaded your land.
    They have desecrated your holy Temple
    and left Jerusalem in ruins.
²They left the bodies of your people for the vultures,
    the bodies of your servants for wild animals to eat.
³They shed your people's blood like water;
    blood flowed like water all through Jerusalem,
    and no one was left to bury the dead.
⁴The surrounding nations insult us;
    they laugh at us and mock us.

⁵Lord, will you be angry with us forever?
    Will your anger continue to burn like fire?
⁶Turn your anger on the nations that do not worship you,
    on the people who do not pray to you.
⁷For they have killed your people;
    they have ruined your country.