Psalm 79

How Long, O Lord?

1 O GOD, the 1 nations have come into a Your inheritance;
Your holy temple they have defiled;
b They have laid Jerusalem 2 in heaps. 2 c The dead bodies of Your servants
They have given as food for the birds of the heavens,
The flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth. 3 Their blood they have shed like water all around Jerusalem,
And there was no one to bury them. 4 We have become a reproach to our d neighbors,
A scorn and derision to those who are around us.

5 e How long, LORD?
Will You be angry forever?
Will Your f jealousy burn like fire? 6 g Pour out Your wrath on the 3 nations that h do not know You,
And on the kingdoms that i do not call on Your name. 7 For they have devoured Jacob,
And laid waste his dwelling place.

8 j Oh, do not remember 4 former iniquities against us!
Let Your tender mercies come speedily to meet us,
For we have been brought very low. 9 Help us, O God of our salvation,
For the glory of Your name;
And deliver us, and provide atonement for our sins,
k For Your name's sake! 10 l Why should the 5 nations say,
"Where is their God?"
Let there be known among the nations in our sight
The avenging of the blood of Your servants which has been shed.

11 Let m the groaning of the prisoner come before You;
According to the greatness of Your 6 power
Preserve those who are appointed to die; 12 And return to our neighbors n sevenfold into their bosom
o Their reproach with which they have reproached You, O Lord. 13 So p we, Your people and sheep of Your pasture,
Will give You thanks forever;
q We will show forth Your praise to all generations.

  1. Cross References
    Psalms 74:2
    Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old, The tribe of Your inheritance, which You have redeemed - This Mount Zion where You have dwelt.
  2. Cross References
    2 Kings 25:9
    He burned the house of the LORD and the king's ...
    2 Kings 25:10
    And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with...
    2 Chronicles 36:17 - 19
    Therefore He brought against them the king of t...
    Jeremiah 26:18
    "Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of H...
    Jeremiah 52:12 - 14
    Now in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the...
    Micah 3:12
    Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed l...
  3. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:26
    Your carcasses shall be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and no one shall frighten them away.
    Jeremiah 7:33
    The corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth. And no one will frighten them away.
    Jeremiah 19:7
    And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hands of those who seek their lives; their corpses I will give as meat for the birds of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth.
    Jeremiah 34:20
    I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life. Their dead bodies shall be for meat for the birds of the heaven and the beasts of the earth.
  4. Cross References
    Psalms 44:13
    You make us a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and a derision to those all around us.
    Daniel 9:16
    O Lord, according to all Your righteousness, I pray, let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all those around us.
  5. Cross References
    Psalms 74:1
    O GOD, why have You cast us off forever? Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?
    Psalms 74:9
    We do not see our signs; There is no longer any prophet; Nor is there any among us who knows how long.
  6. Cross References
    Zephaniah 3:8
    Therefore wait for Me," says the LORD, "Until the day I rise up for plunder; My determination is to gather the nations To My assembly of kingdoms, To pour on them My indignation, All My fierce anger; All the earth shall be devoured With the fire of My jealousy.
  7. Cross References
    Jeremiah 10:25
    Pour out Your fury on the Gentiles, who do not know You, And on the families who do not call on Your name; For they have eaten up Jacob, Devoured him and consumed him, And made his dwelling place desolate.
    Zephaniah 3:8
    Therefore wait for Me," says the LORD, "Until the day I rise up for plunder; My determination is to gather the nations To My assembly of kingdoms, To pour on them My indignation, All My fierce anger; All the earth shall be devoured With the fire of My jealousy.
  8. Cross References
    Isaiah 45:4
    For Jacob My servant's sake, And Israel My elect, I have even called you by your name; I have named you, though you have not known Me.
    Isaiah 45:5
    I am the LORD, and there is no other; There is no God besides Me. I will gird you, though you have not known Me.
    1 Thessalonians 4:5
    Not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God.
    2 Thessalonians 1:8
    In flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  9. Cross References
    Psalms 53:4
    Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And do not call upon God?
  10. Cross References
    Isaiah 64:9
    Do not be furious, O LORD, Nor remember iniquity forever; Indeed, please look - we all are Your people!
  11. Cross References
    Jeremiah 14:7
    O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, Do it for Your name's sake; For our backslidings are many, We have sinned against You.
    Jeremiah 14:21
    Do not abhor us, for Your name's sake; Do not disgrace the throne of Your glory. Remember, do not break Your covenant with us.
  12. Cross References
    Psalms 42:10
    As with a breaking of my bones, My enemies reproach me, While they say to me all day long, "Where is your God?
  13. Cross References
    Psalms 102:20
    To hear the groaning of the prisoner, To release those appointed to death.
  14. Cross References
    Genesis 4:15
    And the LORD said to him, "Therefore, whoever kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold." And the LORD set a mark on Cain, lest anyone finding him should kill him.
    Leviticus 26:21
    Then, if you walk contrary to Me, and are not willing to obey Me, I will bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins.
    Proverbs 6:31
    Yet when he is found, he must restore sevenfold; He may have to give up all the substance of his house.
    Isaiah 30:26
    Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, And the light of the sun will be sevenfold, As the light of seven days, In the day that the LORD binds up the bruise of His people And heals the stroke of their wound.
  15. Cross References
    Psalms 74:10
    O God, how long will the adversary reproach? Will the enemy blaspheme Your name forever?
    Psalms 74:18
    Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, And that a foolish people has blasphemed Your name.
    Psalms 74:22
    Arise, O God, plead Your own cause; Remember how the foolish man reproaches You daily.
  16. Cross References
    Psalms 74:1
    O GOD, why have You cast us off forever? Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?
    Psalms 95:7
    For He is our God, And we are the people of His pasture, And the sheep of His hand. Today, if you will hear His voice:
  17. Cross References
    Isaiah 43:21
    This people I have formed for Myself; They shall declare My praise.
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