Psaumes 79.1
English standard version

Supplication en faveur de Jérusalem

¹ A Psalm of Asaph.
O God, the nations have come into your inheritance;
they have defiled your holy temple;
they have laid Jerusalem in ruins
² They have given the bodies of your servants
to the birds of the heavens for food,
the flesh of your faithful to the beasts of the earth
³ They have poured out their blood like water
all around Jerusalem,
and there was no one to bury them
⁴ We have become a taunt to our neighbors,
mocked and derided by those around us
⁵ How long, O Lord? Will you be angry forever?
Will your jealousy burn like fire?
⁶ Pour out your anger on the nations
that do not know you,
and on the kingdoms
that do not call upon your name!
⁷ For they have devoured Jacob
and laid waste his habitation.
⁸ Do not remember against us our former iniquities;
let your compassion come speedily to meet us,
for we are brought very low.
⁹ Help us, O God of our salvation,
for the glory of your name;
deliver us, and atone for our sins,
for your name's sake!
¹⁰ Why should the nations say,
Where is their God?
Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants
be known among the nations before our eyes!
¹¹ Let the groans of the prisoners come before you;
according to your great power, preserve those doomed to die!
¹² Return sevenfold into the lap of our neighbors
the taunts with which they have taunted you, O Lord!
¹³ But we your people, the sheep of your pasture,
will give thanks to you forever;
from generation to generation we will recount your praise.