Psalms - Chapter 78

Passage

A psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathens are come into your inheritance, they have defiled your holy temple: they have made Jerusalem as a place to keep fruit. They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be meat for the fowls of the air: the flesh of your saints for the beasts of the earth. They have poured out their blood as water, round about Jerusalem and there was none to bury them. We are become a reproach to our neighbors: a scorn and derision to them that are round about us. How long, O Lord, will you be angry for ever: shall your zeal be kindled like a fire? Pour out your wrath upon the nations that have not known you: and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon your name. Because they have devoured Jacob; and have laid waste his place. Remember not our former iniquities: let your mercies speedily prevent us, for we are become exceeding poor. Help us, O God, our saviour: and for the glory of your name, O Lord, deliver us: and forgive us our sins for your name's sake: Lest they should say among the Gentiles: Where is their God? And let him be made known among the nations before our eyes, By the revenging the blood of your servants, which has been shed: Let the sighing of the prisoners come in before you. According to the greatness of your arm, take possession of the children of them that have been put to death. And render to our neighbors sevenfold in their bosom: the reproach with which they have reproached you, O Lord. But we your people, and the sheep of your pasture, will give thanks to you for ever. We will show forth your praise, to generation and generation.