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title: Psalm 79
slug: kjv/psalm-79
createdAt: 2024-08-28T02:52:58.342Z
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**1 **\{A Psalm of Asaph.} O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

**2 **The dead bodies of thy servants have they given *to be* meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

**3 **Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and *there was* none to bury *them*.

**4 **We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

**5 **How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

**6 **Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.

**7 **For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

**8 **O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.

**9 **Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.

**10 **Wherefore should the heathen say, Where *is* their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight *by* the revenging of the blood of thy servants *which is* shed.

**11 **Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;

**12 **And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

**13 **So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.