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Psalm 79 Majority Standard Bible

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Notes on this text (1)

1 A Psalm of Asaph. The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble. 2 They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth. 3 They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead. 4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us. 5 How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire? 6 Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name, 7 for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland. 8 Do not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come quickly, for we are brought low. 9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; deliver us and atone for our sins, for the sake of Your name. 10 Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants. 11 May the groans of the captives reach You; by the strength of Your arm preserve those condemned to death. 12 Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord. 13 Then we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, will thank You forever; from generation to generation we will declare Your praise.

Cross references (13)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Lamentations 1:10; 2 Chronicles 36:19; Micah 3:12; Psalm 74:1–4; Psalm 74:7–8
  2. 2 Jeremiah 7:33; Jeremiah 34:20; Jeremiah 16:4; Jeremiah 19:7; Deuteronomy 28:26
  3. 3 Jeremiah 16:4; Jeremiah 14:16; Revelation 11:9; Romans 8:36; Jeremiah 25:33
  4. 4 Psalm 80:6; Ezekiel 36:15; Psalm 89:41; Lamentations 5:1; Psalm 44:13–14
  5. 5 Psalm 89:46; Psalm 74:1; Psalm 85:5; Deuteronomy 29:20; Zephaniah 3:8
  6. 6 Jeremiah 10:25; 2 Thessalonians 1:8; Psalm 14:4; Psalm 69:24; Psalm 53:4
  7. 7 Jeremiah 51:34–35; Zechariah 1:15; Isaiah 64:10–11; Isaiah 24:1–12; Jeremiah 50:7
  8. 8 Isaiah 64:9; Psalm 142:6; Psalm 116:6; Revelation 18:5; Psalm 21:3
  9. 9 Jeremiah 14:7; Psalm 25:11; 2 Chronicles 14:11; Jeremiah 14:21; Isaiah 48:9
  10. 10 Psalm 42:10; Exodus 6:7; Psalm 115:2; Ezekiel 39:21–22; Exodus 7:5
  11. 11 Psalm 102:20; Isaiah 42:7; Isaiah 33:2; Psalm 146:6–7; Exodus 2:23–24
  12. 12 Jeremiah 32:18; Genesis 4:15; Leviticus 26:21; Proverbs 6:31; Leviticus 26:28
  13. 13 Psalm 95:7; Isaiah 43:21; Psalm 100:3; Psalm 74:1; Psalm 145:4

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“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).

  1. 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)

  2. 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)

  3. 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)