Psalm 79 Literal Standard Version

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1 A PSALM OF ASAPH. O God, nations have come into Your inheritance, || They have defiled Your holy temple, || They made Jerusalem become heaps,

1 A Psalm by Asaph. God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

2 They gave the dead bodies of Your servants || [As] food for the birds of the heavens, || The flesh of Your saints || For the wild beast of the earth.

2 They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.

3 They have shed their blood || As water around Jerusalem, || And there is none burying.

3 They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

4 We have been a reproach to our neighbors, || A scorn and a derision to our surrounders.

4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

5 Until when, O YHWH? Are You angry forever? Your jealousy burns as fire.

5 How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

6 Pour Your fury on the nations who have not known You, || And on kingdoms that have not called on Your Name.

6 Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name,

7 For [one] has devoured Jacob, || And they have made his habitation desolate.

7 for they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.

8 Do not remember for us the iniquities of forefathers, || Hurry, let Your mercies go before us, || For we have been very weak.

8 Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.

9 Help us, O God of our salvation, || Because of the glory of Your Name, || And deliver us, and cover over our sins, || For Your Name’s sake.

9 Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.

10 Why do the nations say, “Where [is] their God?” Let [it] be known among the nations before our eyes, || The vengeance of the blood of Your servants that is shed.

10 Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.

11 Let the groaning of the prisoner come in before You, || According to the greatness of Your arm, || Leave the sons of death.

11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.

12 And return to our neighbors, || Sevenfold to their bosom, their reproach, || With which they reproached You, O Lord.

12 Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

13 And we, Your people, and the flock of Your pasture, || We give thanks to You for all time, || We recount Your praise from generation to generation!

13 So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.

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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm LXXVIII)
This Psalm doth contain the things which are said to have been done among the old people: but the new and latter people is being admonished, to beware that it be not ungrateful regarding the blessings of God, and provoke His anger against it, whereas it ought to receive His grace....The Title thereof doth first move and engage our attention.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
Quotes verse 79:5 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book VIII, Chapter XI)
Wilt Thou be angry for ever? Oh, remember not against us former iniquities;" for I felt that I was enthralled by them.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
Quotes verse 79:3 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily XVII)
For they who did not spare children, who slew prophets, and "shed blood as water," much more would they have showed no mercy to women.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)

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