Psalms 79

²They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky,

³They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem.

⁴We have become a reproach to our neighbors,

⁵How long, LORD?

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

⁷for they have devoured Jacob,

⁸Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us.

⁹Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name.

¹⁰Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”

¹¹Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you.

¹²Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom

¹³So we, your people and sheep of your pasture,