Psalms 79

Verse 1

WEB A Psalm by Asaph. God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

KJV A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

TSK of Asaph: ps 74:1; the heathen: ps 74:3,4, ps 80:12,13, 2ki 21:12-16, 2ki 25:4-10, 2ch 36:3,4,6,7,17, lu 21:24, re 11:2; into: ps 74:2, ps 78:71, ex 15:17, isa 47:6; holy: ps 74:7,8, 2ki 24:13, la 1:10, eze 7:20,21, eze 9:7; have laid: 2ki 25:9,10, 2ch 36:19, jer 26:18, jer 39:8, jer 52:13, mic 3:12

Verse 2

WEB They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.

KJV The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

TSK The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.: jer 7:33, jer 15:3, jer 16:4, jer 34:20

Verse 3

WEB Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

KJV Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

TSK Their: ps 79:10, mt 23:35, ro 8:36, re 16:6, re 17:6, re 18:24; and there, etc.: ps 141:7, jer 8:1,2, jer 14:16, jer 15:3, jer 16:4, jer 25:33, jer 34:20, re 11:9

Verse 4

WEB We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

KJV We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

TSK become: ps 44:13,14, ps 80:6, ps 89:41, de 28:37, jer 24:9, jer 25:18, jer 42:18, la 2:15,16, la 5:1, eze 35:12, eze 36:3,15; scorn: 1ki 9:7, ne 2:19, ne 4:1-4

Verse 5

WEB How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

KJV How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

TSK How long: ps 13:1,2, ps 74:1,9,10, ps 80:4, ps 89:46, re 6:10; wilt: ps 85:5, ps 103:9, isa 64:9, mic 7:18; jealousy: de 29:20, de 32:16,22, eze 36:5, zep 1:18, zep 3:8

Verse 6

WEB Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you; on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name;

KJV Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.

TSK Pour: ps 69:24, isa 42:25, re 16:1-21; upon: isa 13:1-22, isa 21:1-17, isa 23:1-18, jer 10:25, jer 25:29, jer 46:1-51; not known: ps 9:16,17, isa 45:4,5, joh 16:3, joh 17:25, ac 17:23, ro 1:28, 2th 1:8; not called: ps 14:4, ps 53:4, ps 145:18, ro 10:12-14, 1co 1:2

Verse 7

WEB For they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.

KJV For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

TSK For they: ps 80:13, isa 9:12, jer 50:7, jer 51:34,35, zec 1:15; laid: 2ch 36:21, isa 24:1-12, isa 64:10,11

Verse 8

WEB Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.

KJV O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.

TSK remember: ps 25:7, ps 130:3, ex 32:34, 1ki 17:18, isa 64:9, ho 8:13, ho 9:9, re 18:5; former iniquities: ge 15:16, eze 2:3, da 9:16, mt 23:32-36; let thy: ps 21:3, ps 69:16,17; we are: ps 106:43, ps 116:6, ps 142:6, de 28:43

Verse 9

WEB Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.

KJV Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.

TSK for the: ps 115:1, 2ch 14:11, mal 2:2, eph 1:6; purge: ps 25:11, ps 65:3, da 9:9,19; for thy: jos 7:9, isa 43:25, isa 48:9, jer 14:7,21, eze 20:9,14

Verse 10

WEB Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.

KJV Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.

TSK Wherefore: ps 42:3,10, ps 115:2, joe 2:17, mic 7:10; let him: ps 9:16, ps 58:11, ps 83:17,18, ex 6:7, ex 7:5, eze 36:23, eze 39:21,22; by the: jer 51:35, re 18:20; revenging: ro 12:19

Verse 11

WEB Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.

KJV Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;

TSK sighing: ps 12:5, ps 69:33, ps 102:20, ex 2:23,24, isa 42:7; according: ps 146:6,7, nu 14:17-19, mt 6:13, eph 3:20; thy power: isa 33:2; preserve thou those that are appointed to die: ps 102:20

Verse 12

WEB Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

KJV And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

TSK render: ge 4:15, le 26:21,28, isa 65:5-7, jer 32:18, lu 6:38; wherewith: ps 44:16, ps 74:18-22

Verse 13

WEB So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.

KJV So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will show forth thy praise to all generations.

TSK thy people: ps 74:1, ps 95:7, ps 100:3; we will: ps 45:17, ps 74:18,22, ps 145:4, isa 43:21