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Asaph describes nations invading, bodies unburied, and Israel mocked; he confesses ancestral iniquity, asks God to act for His name, and promises perpetual thanks.
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Psalms 79
Asaph describes nations invading, bodies unburied, and Israel mocked; he confesses ancestral iniquity, asks God to act for His name, and promises perpetual thanks.
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1O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy…2The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to…3Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem;…4We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn…5How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall…6Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not…7For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling…8O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender…9Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory…10Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let…11Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according…12And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their…13So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will…