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class="q2"><span class="v19_79_1">and left Jerusalem in ruins.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_79_2"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.79.2" class="v19_79_2">2</span>They left the bodies of your people for the vultures,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_79_2">the bodies of your servants for wild animals to eat.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_79_3"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.79.3" class="v19_79_3">3</span>They shed your people's blood like water;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_79_3">blood flowed like water all through Jerusalem,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_79_3">and no one was left to bury the dead.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_79_4"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.79.4" class="v19_79_4">4</span>The surrounding nations insult us;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_79_4">they laugh at us and mock us.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_79_5"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.79.5" class="v19_79_5">5</span><span class="nd">Lord</span>, will you be angry with us forever?</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_79_5">Will your anger continue to burn like fire?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_79_6"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.79.6" class="v19_79_6">6</span>Turn your anger on the nations that do not worship you,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_79_6">on the people who do not pray to you.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_79_7"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.79.7" class="v19_79_7">7</span>For they have killed your people;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_79_7">they have ruined your country.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_79_8"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.79.8" class="v19_79_8">8</span>Do not punish us for the sins of our ancestors.</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_79_8">Have mercy on us now;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_79_8">we have lost all hope.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_79_9"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.79.9" class="v19_79_9">9</span>Help us, O God, and save us;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_79_9">rescue us and forgive our sins</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_79_9">for the sake of your own honor.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_79_10"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.79.10" class="v19_79_10">10</span>Why should the nations ask us,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_79_10">“Where is your God?”</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_79_10">Let us see you punish the nations</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_79_10">for shedding the blood of your servants.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_79_11"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.79.11" class="v19_79_11">11</span>Listen to the groans of the prisoners,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_79_11">and by your great power free those who are condemned to die.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_79_12"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.79.12" class="v19_79_12">12</span>Lord, pay the other nations back seven times</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_79_12">for all the insults they have hurled at you.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_79_13"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.79.13" class="v19_79_13">13</span>Then we, your people, the sheep of your flock,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_79_13">will thank you forever</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_79_13">and praise you for all time to come.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">HEBREW TITLE: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">A psalm by Asaph.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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