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Psalms 79

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Part of Book III📖 Psalms introduction

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1A Psalm by Asaph. God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps. ✦ 2They 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. ✦ 3Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them. ✦ 4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us. ✦ 5How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire? ✦ 6Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you; on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name; ✦ 7For they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland. ✦ 8Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need. ✦ 9Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake. ✦ 10Why 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. ✦ 11Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death. ✦ 12Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord. ✦ 13So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Ps 74 ·92 Chr 36 ·5Ps 80 ·4Dan 9 ·4Ezek 36 ·4Isa 64 ·3Ps 44 ·3Deut 28 ·3

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 79 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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  • ★ Start hereAudioThrough the WordThrough the Word · ~10 min/chapter · Free · evangelical

    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

  • ★ Start hereCommentaryPsalms (Tyndale OT Commentaries)Derek Kidner · Paid · evangelical

    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

Pastoral

  • SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical

    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.

  • VideoWatch teaching on Psalms 79YouTube · Lay · Free

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — Psalms 79David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Psalms 79Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

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