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Psalms 79

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Part of Book III📖 Psalms introduction

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1God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance; They have defiled Your holy temple; They have laid Jerusalem in ruins. ✦ 2They have given the dead bodies of Your servants to the birds of the sky as food, The flesh of Your godly ones to the animals of the earth. ✦ 3They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem; And there was no one to bury them. ✦ 4We have become a disgrace before our neighbors, An object of derision and ridicule to those around us. ✦ 5How long, Lord? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire? ✦ 6Pour out Your wrath upon the nations which do not know You, And upon the kingdoms which do not call upon Your name. ✦ 7For they have devoured Jacob And laid waste his settlement. ✦ 8¶Do not hold us responsible for the guilty deeds of our forefathers; Let Your compassion come quickly to meet us, For we have become very low. ✦ 9Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; And save us and forgive our sins for the sake of Your name. ✦ 10Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let vengeance for the blood of Your servants which has been shed Be known among the nations in our sight. ✦ 11Let the groaning of the prisoner come before You; According to the greatness of Your power, let those who are doomed to die remain. ✦ 12And return to our neighbors seven times as much into their lap Their taunts with which they have taunted You, Lord. ✦ 13So we Your people and the sheep of Your pasture Will give thanks to You forever; To all generations we will tell of Your praise. ✦

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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

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

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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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