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Psalms 79

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Part of Book III📖 Psalms introduction

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1O God, the nations have come into Your inheritance; Your holy temple they have defiled; They have laid Jerusalem in heaps. ✦ 2The dead bodies of Your servants They have given as food for the birds of the heavens, The flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth. ✦ 3Their blood they have shed like water all around Jerusalem, And there was no one to bury them. ✦ 4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and derision to those who are around us. ✦ 5How long, Lord? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire? ✦ 6Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not know You, And on the kingdoms that do not call on Your name. ✦ 7For they have devoured Jacob, And laid waste his dwelling place. ✦ 8Oh, do not remember former iniquities against us! Let Your tender mercies come speedily to meet us, For we have been brought very low. ✦ 9Help us, O God of our salvation, For the glory of Your name; And deliver us, and provide atonement for our sins, For Your name’s sake! ✦ 10Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let there be known among the nations in our sight The avenging of the blood of Your servants which has been shed. ✦ 11Let the groaning of the prisoner come before You; According to the greatness of Your power Preserve those who are appointed to die; ✦ 12And return to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom Their reproach with which they have reproached You, O Lord. ✦ 13So we, Your people and sheep of Your pasture, Will give You thanks forever; We will show forth Your praise to all generations. ✦

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Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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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