Psalms 79:1 - Prayer Tents

79An Asaph psalm. God! Barbarians have broken into your home, violated your holy temple, left Jerusalem a pile of rubble!H4210H623H430H1471H935H5159H6944H1964H2930H7760H3389H5856 2They've served up the corpses of your servants as carrion food for birds of prey, Threw the bones of your holy people out to the wild animals to gnaw on.H5038H5650H5414H3978H5775H8064H1320H2623H2416H776 3They dumped out their blood like buckets of water. All around Jerusalem, their bodies were left to rot, unburied.H1818H8210H4325H5439H3389H6912 4We're nothing but a joke to our neighbors, graffiti scrawled on the city walls.H2781H7934H3933H7047H5439 5How long do we have to put up with this, GOD? Do you have it in for us for good? Will your smoldering rage never cool down?H3068H599H5331H7068H1197H784 6If you're going to be angry, be angry with the pagans who care nothing about you, or your rival kingdoms who ignore you.H8210H2534H1471H3045H4467H7121H8034 7They're the ones who ruined Jacob, who wrecked and looted the place where he lived.H398H3290H8074H5116 8Don't blame us for the sins of our parents. Hurry up and help us; we're at the end of our rope.H2142H7223H5771H7356H4118H6923H1809H3966H1809 9You're famous for helping; God, give us a break. Your reputation is on the line. Pull us out of this mess, forgive us our sins— do what you're famous for doing!H5826H430H3468H1697H3519H8034H5337H3722H2403H8034 10Don't let the heathen get by with their sneers: "Where's your God? Is he out to lunch?" Go public and show the godless world that they can't kill your servants and get by with it.H1471H559H430H3045H1471H5869H5360H1818H5650H8210 11Give groaning prisoners a hearing; pardon those on death row from their doom—you can do it!H603H615H935H6440H1433H2220H3498H1121H8546 12Give our jeering neighbors what they've got coming to them; let their God-taunts boomerang and knock them flat.H7725H7934H7659H2436H2781H2778H136 13Then we, your people, the ones you love and care for, will thank you over and over and over. We'll tell everyone we meet how wonderful you are, how praiseworthy you are!H5971H6629H4830H3034H5769H5608H8416H1755H1755