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Psalm 79 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:1 - <A Psalm. Of Asaph.> O God, the nations have come into your heritage; they have made your holy Temple unclean; they have made Jerusalem a mass of broken walls.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:2 - They have given the bodies of your servants as food to the birds of the air, and the flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:3 - Their blood has been flowing like water round about Jerusalem; there was no one to put them in their last resting-place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:4 - We are looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and made sport of by those who are round us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:5 - How long, O Lord? will you be angry for ever? will your wrath go on burning like fire?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:6 - Let your wrath be on the nations who have no knowledge of you, and on the kingdoms who have not made prayer to your name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:7 - For they have taken Jacob for their meat, and made waste his house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:8 - Do not keep in mind against us the sins of our fathers; let your mercy come to us quickly, for we have been made very low.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:9 - Give us help, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; take us out of danger and give us forgiveness for our sins, because of your name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:10 - Why may the nations say, Where is their God? Let payment for the blood of your servants be made openly among the nations before our eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:11 - Let the cry of the prisoner come before you; with your strong arm make free the children of death;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:12 - And give punishment seven times over into the breast of our neighbours for the bitter words which they have said against you, O Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:13 - So we your people, and the sheep of your flock, will give you glory for ever: we will go on praising you through all generations.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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