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Psalms 79

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Part of Book III📖 Psalms introduction

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1O GOD, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. ✦ 2The 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. ✦ 3Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them. ✦ 4We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us. ✦ 5How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire? ✦ 6Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name. ✦ 7For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place. ✦ 8O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low. ✦ 9Help 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. ✦ 10Wherefore 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. ✦ 11Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die; ✦ 12And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord. ✦ 13So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise 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.

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  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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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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