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Psalms 79

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Part of Book III📖 Psalms introduction

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1O God, pagan nations have conquered your land, your special possession. They have defiled your holy Temple and made Jerusalem a heap of ruins. ✦ 2They have left the bodies of your servants as food for the birds of heaven. The flesh of your godly ones has become food for the wild animals. ✦ 3Blood has flowed like water all around Jerusalem; no one is left to bury the dead. ✦ 4We are mocked by our neighbors, an object of scorn and derision to those around us. ✦ 5O Lord, how long will you be angry with us? Forever? How long will your jealousy burn like fire? ✦ 6Pour out your wrath on the nations that refuse to acknowledge you— on kingdoms that do not call upon your name. ✦ 7For they have devoured your people Israel, making the land a desolate wilderness. ✦ 8Do not hold us guilty for the sins of our ancestors! Let your compassion quickly meet our needs, for we are on the brink of despair. ✦ 9Help us, O God of our salvation! Help us for the glory of your name. Save us and forgive our sins for the honor of your name. ✦ 10Why should pagan nations be allowed to scoff, asking, “Where is their God?” Show us your vengeance against the nations, for they have spilled the blood of your servants. ✦ 11Listen to the moaning of the prisoners. Demonstrate your great power by saving those condemned to die. ✦ 12O Lord, pay back our neighbors seven times for the scorn they have hurled at you. ✦ 13Then we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will thank you forever and ever, praising your greatness from generation to generation. ✦

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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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