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Biblical traditions
The Bible: Old Testament Chapter 79
Chapter 624 of 1,075
Canonical reference Psalms 79
English
World English Bible editorial project · World English Bible, Catholic book order (2020)
A Psalm by Asaph.
1. God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
2. They 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.
3. They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.
4. We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
5. How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
6. Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name,
7. for they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.
8. Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.
9. Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.
10. Why 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.
11. Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.
12. Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
13. So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.
French
Fraternite de Tiberiade · Sainte Bible neo-Crampon Libre (2022)
1. Psaume d’Asaph. O Dieu, les nations ont envahi ton héritage, elles ont profané ton saint temple, elles ont fait de Jérusalem un monceau de pierres.
2. Elles ont livré les cadavres de tes serviteurs en pâture aux oiseaux du ciel, et la chair de tes fidèles aux bêtes de la terre.
3. Elles ont versé leur sang comme de l’eau, tout autour de Jérusalem, et personne pour leur donner la sépulture !
4. Nous sommes devenus un objet d’opprobre pour nos voisins, de risée et de moquerie pour ceux qui nous entourent.
5. Jusques à quand, Yahweh, seras-tu irrité pour toujours, et ta colère s’allumera-t-elle comme le feu ?
6. Répands ta fureur sur les nations qui ne te connaissent pas, sur les royaumes qui n’invoquent pas ton nom.
7. Car ils ont dévoré Jacob, et ravagé sa demeure.
8. Ne te souviens plus contre nous des iniquités de nos pères ; que ta compassion vienne en hâte au-devant de nous, car notre misère est au comble.
9. Secours-nous, Dieu de notre salut, pour la gloire de ton nom, délivre-nous et pardonne nos péchés à cause de ton nom.
10. Pourquoi les nations diraient-elles : « Où est leur Dieu ? » Qu’on connaisse parmi les nations, et sous nos yeux, la vengeance que tu tires du sang de tes serviteurs, quand il est répandu !
11. Que les gémissements des captifs montent jusqu’à toi ; selon la grandeur de ton bras, sauve ceux qui vont périr !
12. Fais retomber sept fois dans le sein de nos voisins les outrages qu’ils t’ont faits, Seigneur !
13. Et nous, ton peuple, le troupeau de ton pâturage, nous te rendrons gloire à jamais ; d’âge en âge, nous publierons tes louanges.
Latin
Biblia Vulgata Clementina (1598), Migne witness (1880)
1. In finem, pro iis qui commutabuntur. Testimonium Asaph, psalmus.
2. [Qui regis Israël, intende; qui deducis velut ovem Joseph. Qui sedes super cherubim, manifestare
3. coram Ephraim, Benjamin, et Manasse. Excita potentiam tuam, et veni, ut salvos facias nos.
4. Deus, converte nos, et ostende faciem tuam, et salvi erimus.
5. Domine Deus virtutum, quousque irasceris super orationem servi tui?
6. cibabis nos pane lacrimarum, et potum dabis nobis in lacrimis in mensura?
7. Posuisti nos in contradictionem vicinis nostris, et inimici nostri subsannaverunt nos.
8. Deus virtutum, converte nos, et ostende faciem tuam, et salvi erimus.
9. Vineam de Ægypto transtulisti: ejecisti gentes, et plantasti eam.
10. Dux itineris fuisti in conspectu ejus; plantasti radices ejus, et implevit terram.
11. Operuit montes umbra ejus, et arbusta ejus cedros Dei.
12. Extendit palmites suos usque ad mare, et usque ad flumen propagines ejus.
13. Ut quid destruxisti maceriam ejus, et vindemiant eam omnes qui prætergrediuntur viam?
14. Exterminavit eam aper de silva, et singularis ferus depastus est eam.
15. Deus virtutum, convertere, respice de cælo, et vide, et visita vineam istam:
16. et perfice eam quam plantavit dextera tua, et super filium hominis quem confirmasti tibi.
17. Incensa igni et suffossa, ab increpatione vultus tui peribunt.
18. Fiat manus tua super virum dexteræ tuæ, et super filium hominis quem confirmasti tibi.
19. Et non discedimus a te: vivificabis nos, et nomen tuum invocabimus.
20. Domine Deus virtutum, converte nos, et ostende faciem tuam, et salvi erimus.]
English AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
1. Unto the end, for those who shall be changed. A testimony of Asaph, a psalm.
2. [You who rule Israel, attend; you who lead Joseph like a sheep. You who sit above the cherubim, manifest yourself
3. before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Stir up your power and come, that you may save us.
4. O God, turn us back and show your face, and we shall be saved.
5. O Lord God of hosts, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your servant?
6. Will you feed us the bread of tears and give us tears to drink in measure?
7. You have made us a source of contention to our neighbors, and our enemies have mocked us.
8. O God of hosts, turn us back and show your face, and we shall be saved.
9. You transplanted a vine from Egypt; you cast out the nations and planted it.
10. You were the leader of its journey before it; you planted its roots, and it filled the earth.
11. Its shadow covered the mountains, and its branches the cedars of God.
12. It extended its branches to the sea, and its shoots as far as the river.
13. Why have you destroyed its wall, so that all who pass along the way pluck its grapes?
14. The boar from the forest has ravaged it, and a solitary wild beast has fed upon it.
15. O God of hosts, turn back; look down from heaven, see, and visit this vine.
16. And perfect what your right hand has planted, and the son of man whom you have strengthened for yourself.
17. Burned with fire and dug up, they shall perish at the rebuke of your countenance.
18. Let your hand be upon the man of your right hand, and upon the son of man whom you have strengthened for yourself.
19. And we shall not depart from you; you shall give us life, and we shall call upon your name.
20. O Lord God of hosts, turn us back and show your face, and we shall be saved.]
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
1. Pour la fin, pour ceux qui seront changés. Témoignage d’Asaph, psaume.
2. [Toi qui gouvernes Israël, sois attentif; toi qui conduis Joseph comme une brebis. Toi qui sièges sur les chérubins, manifeste-toi
3. devant Éphraïm, Benjamin et Manassé. Éveille ta puissance et viens afin de nous sauver.
4. Ô Dieu, convertis-nous, montre ton visage, et nous serons sauvés.
5. Seigneur Dieu des armées, jusqu’à quand seras-tu irrité contre la prière de ton serviteur?
6. Nous nourriras-tu du pain des larmes, et nous donneras-tu à boire des larmes avec mesure?
7. Tu as fait de nous un objet de contradiction pour nos voisins, et nos ennemis se sont moqués de nous.
8. Dieu des armées, convertis-nous, montre ton visage, et nous serons sauvés.
9. Tu as transporté une vigne hors d’Égypte; tu as chassé les nations et tu l’as plantée.
10. Tu as ouvert le chemin devant elle; tu as planté ses racines, et elle a rempli la terre.
11. Son ombre a couvert les montagnes, et ses branches, les cèdres de Dieu.
12. Elle a étendu ses rameaux jusqu’à la mer, et ses pousses jusqu’au fleuve.
13. Pourquoi as-tu détruit sa clôture, de sorte que tous ceux qui passent sur le chemin la vendangent?
14. Le sanglier de la forêt l’a ravagée, et une bête sauvage solitaire l’a broutée.
15. Dieu des armées, retourne-toi, regarde du ciel, vois et visite cette vigne.
16. Achève celle que ta droite a plantée, et regarde le fils de l’homme que tu as affermi pour toi.
17. Incendiés par le feu et arrachés, ils périront devant la réprimande de ton visage.
18. Que ta main soit sur l’homme de ta droite et sur le fils de l’homme que tu as affermi pour toi.
19. Et nous ne nous éloignerons pas de toi; tu nous rendras la vie, et nous invoquerons ton nom.
20. Seigneur Dieu des armées, convertis-nous, montre ton visage, et nous serons sauvés.]
Concepts in this passage
Anger
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Death
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Ether and field
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Family
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Forgiveness
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God
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Neighbor
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Verses in this chapter
- Verse 1God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
- Verse 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 …
- Verse 3They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.
- Verse 4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
- Verse 5How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
- Verse 6Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name,
- Verse 7for they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.
- Verse 8Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.
- Verse 9Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.
- Verse 10Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your ser…
- Verse 11Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to de…
- Verse 12Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
- Verse 13So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.