791 O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple, they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
791 O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
791 O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
791 God! Barbarians have broken into your home, violated your holy temple, left Jerusalem a pile of rubble!
791 A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the nations have come into Your inheritance; Your holy temple they have defiled; They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
791 OÂ God, pagan nations have conquered your land, your special possession. They have defiled your holy Temple and made Jerusalem a heap of ruins.
4 We are objects of contempt to our neighbors, of scorn and derision to those around us.
4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
4 We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those around us.
4 We're nothing but a joke to our neighbors, graffiti scrawled on the city walls.
4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and derision to those who are around us.
4 We are mocked by our neighbors, an object of scorn and derision to those around us.
(Read Psalm 79:1-5)
God is complained to: whither should children go but to a Father able and willing to help them? See what a change sin made in the holy city, when the heathen were suffered to pour in upon them. God's own people defiled it by their sins, therefore he suffered their enemies to defile it by their insolence. They desired that God would be reconciled. Those who desire God's favour as better than life, cannot but dread his wrath as worse than death. In every affliction we should first beseech the Lord to cleanse away the guilt of our sins; then he will visit us with his tender mercies.
5 How long, Lord? Will you be angry forever? How long will your jealousy burn like fire?
5 How long, Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
5 How long, O Lord? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
5 How long do we have to put up with this, God? Do you have it in for us for good? Will your smoldering rage never cool down?
5 How long, Lord? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
5 O Lord, how long will you be angry with us? Forever? How long will your jealousy burn like fire?
(Read Psalm 79:1-5)
God is complained to: whither should children go but to a Father able and willing to help them? See what a change sin made in the holy city, when the heathen were suffered to pour in upon them. God's own people defiled it by their sins, therefore he suffered their enemies to defile it by their insolence. They desired that God would be reconciled. Those who desire God's favour as better than life, cannot but dread his wrath as worse than death. In every affliction we should first beseech the Lord to cleanse away the guilt of our sins; then he will visit us with his tender mercies.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 79:1
Commentary on Psalm 79:1-5
(Read Psalm 79:1-5)
God is complained to: whither should children go but to a Father able and willing to help them? See what a change sin made in the holy city, when the heathen were suffered to pour in upon them. God's own people defiled it by their sins, therefore he suffered their enemies to defile it by their insolence. They desired that God would be reconciled. Those who desire God's favour as better than life, cannot but dread his wrath as worse than death. In every affliction we should first beseech the Lord to cleanse away the guilt of our sins; then he will visit us with his tender mercies.