# Psalms 79 [[Psalms 78|←]] • [[Psalms 80|→]] --- A Psalm of Asaph. ### 1 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 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 none to bury ### 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 their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight the revenging of the blood of thy servants 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.