Psalm 79

Ps 79 a Psalm of Asaph

	1 O God, to your inheritance the heathen entrance made; they have defiled your house, in heaps have Salem laid.
	2 Your servants' bodies they have cast to fowls of heav'n for meat; the flesh of your dear saints they gave wild beasts to eat.
	3 Their blood about Jerusalem like water they have shed; and there was none to bury them when they were dead.
	4 To all our neighbors we've become a scorn and a reproach a laughingstock to all who now on us encroach.
	5 How long, O LORD? Your wrath toward us will you forever turn? and will your fire-like jealousy forever burn?
	6 On heathen kingdoms pour your wrath, who call not on your name, 7 for Jacob they devour, and waste his fields with flame.
	8 Remember not our fathers' sins, which guilt on us bestow. Let your compassion soon meet us, brought very low. 9 Oh God of our salvation help! Your name, the glory take! Deliver us; forgive our sins, for your name's sake.  10 Should nations say, "Where is their God?" Let us and them be shown. You do avenge your servant's blood shed for your own.  11 Oh, let the pris' ners sigh ascend before you there on high; according to your might preserve those doomed to die.  12 And to our neighbors' bosom turn, in seven-fold reward, all their reproach which they have cast on you. Oh LORD.  13 So we your people, your own flock, forever thank your name; and to all generations we your praise proclaim. best tunes are Holy Cross 86.84 or Fair Haven 86.84