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A Lament for Jerusalem after Its Destruction

A psalm of Asaph.[a]

79 O God, the nations have entered your inheritance;
they have defiled your holy temple;
they have reduced Jerusalem to ruins.
They have given the bodies of your servants
as food for the birds of the heavens,
the flesh of your faithful to the beasts of the earth.
They have poured out their blood like water
all around Jerusalem,
and there was none to bury them.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 79:1 The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm