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Psalm 79:3-5
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 79:3-5
New Catholic Bible
3 They have poured out their blood like water
all around Jerusalem,
and no one is left to bury them.[a]
4 We have become the scorn of our neighbors,
mocked and derided by those around us.[b]
5 [c]How long, O Lord?[d] Will you be angry forever?
How long will your rage continue to blaze like a fire?
Footnotes
- Psalm 79:3 They have given . . . the flesh . . . to bury them: these verses are cited freely in 1 Mac 7:17 in application to the massacre of sixty pious Jews in Jerusalem during the Maccabean wars.
- Psalm 79:4 A secular hostility opposed Israel to its neighbors, as is shown by the oracles of the Prophets against the nations (see Lam 3:45; Zep 2:8).
- Psalm 79:5 The divine justice cannot remain inactive in the case of such wickedness, which calls out for retribution.
- Psalm 79:5 How long . . . ?: see note on Ps 6:4. Rage: i.e., a jealous rage (see Ps 119:139; Nah 1:2). Blaze like a fire: see Deut 4:24; 6:15; Zep 1:18; 3:8.
