Psalms 79:1-7 A psalm of Assaph. O God! nations have entered into thy heritage; they have profaned thy holy temple; they have rendered Jerusalem heaps of ruins.

Leeser⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ A psalm of Assaph. O God! nations have entered into thy heritage; they have profaned thy holy temple; they have rendered Jerusalem heaps of ruins. ² They have given the dead bodies of thy servants as food unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy pious ones unto the beasts of the earth. ³ They have shed their blood like water all round about Jerusalem: and there is no one to bury them. ⁴ We are become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those that are round about us. ⁵ How long, Lord? wilt thou be indignant for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire? ⁶ Pour out thy fury over the nations that acknowledge thee not, and over the kingdoms that have not called on thy name. ⁷ For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling-place.