Psalms 79

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 [Psalm Of Asaph] God, the pagans have invaded your heritage, they have defiled your holy temple,they have laid Jerusalem in ruins,	1 A psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathens are come into thy inheritance, they have defiled thy holy temple: they have made Jerusalem as a place to keep fruit.
2 they have left the corpses of your servants as food for the birds of the air, the bodies of your faithful forthe wild beasts.	2 They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be meat for the fowls of the air: the flesh of thy saints for the beasts of the earth.
3 Around Jerusalem they have shed blood like water, leaving no one to bury them.	3 They have poured out their blood as water, round about Jerusalem and there was none to bury them.
4 We are the scorn of our neighbours, the butt and laughing-stock of those around us.	4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours: a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
5 How long will you be angry, Yahweh? For ever? Is your jealousy to go on smouldering like a fire?	5 How long, O Lord, wilt thou be angry for ever: shall thy zeal be kindled like a fire?
6 Pour out your anger on the nations who do not acknowledge you, and on the kingdoms that do not callon your name;	6 Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that have not known thee: and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
7 for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his home.	7 Because they have devoured Jacob; and have laid waste his place.
8 Do not count against us the guilt of former generations, in your tenderness come quickly to meet us,for we are utterly weakened;	8 Remember not our former iniquities: let thy mercies speedily prevent us, for we are become exceeding poor.
9 help us, God our Saviour, for the glory of your name; Yahweh, wipe away our sins, rescue us for thesake of your name.	9 Help us, O God, our saviour: and for the glory of thy name, O Lord, deliver us: and forgive us our sins for thy name's sake:
10 Why should the nations ask, 'Where is their God?' Let us see the nations suffer vengeance forshedding your servants' blood.	10 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 thy servants, which hath been shed:
11 May the groans of the captive reach you, by your great strength save those who are condemned todeath!	11 let the sighing of the prisoners come in before thee. According to the greatness of thy arm, take possession of the children of them that have been put to death.
12 Repay our neighbours sevenfold for the insults they have level ed at you, Lord.	12 And render to our neighbours sevenfold in their bosom: the reproach wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
13 And we, your people, the flock that you pasture, will thank you for ever, wil recite your praises fromage to age.	13 But we thy people, and the sheep of thy pasture, will give thanks to thee for ever. We will shew forth thy praise, unto generation and generation.