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\c 79
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\m
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\d A psalm written by Asaph
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\q1
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\v 1 God, other people groups have invaded your own land.
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\q2 They have desecrated your temple,
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\q1 and they have destroyed all the buildings in Jerusalem.
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\q1
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\v 2 Instead of burying the corpses of your people whom they killed,
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\q2 they allowed the vultures to eat the flesh of those corpses,
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\q2 and they also allowed wild animals to eat the corpses of your people.
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\q1
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\v 3 When they killed your people,
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\q1 your people's blood flowed like water through the streets of Jerusalem,
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\q2 and there was almost no one left to bury their corpses.
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\q1
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\v 4 The people groups that live in countries that surround our land insult us;
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\q2 they laugh at us and mock us.
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\q1
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\v 5 Yahweh, how long will this continue?
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\q2 Will you be angry with us forever?
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\q1 Will your anger be like a fire burning within you?
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\q1
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\v 6 Instead of being angry with us,
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\q2 be angry with the people groups that do not know you!
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\q1 Be angry with kingdoms whose people do not pray to you
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\q2
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\v 7 because they have killed Israelite people
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\q2 and they have ruined your country.
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\q1
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\v 8 Do not punish us because of the sins that our ancestors committed!
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\q1 Act mercifully toward us now
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\q2 because we are very discouraged.
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\q1
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\v 9 God, you have saved us many times,
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\q2 so help us now;
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\q1 rescue us and forgive us for having sinned
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\q2 so that other people will honor you.
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\q1
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\v 10 It is not right that the other people groups say about us,
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\q2 "If their God is very powerful, why does he not help them?"
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\q1 Allow us to see you punishing the people of other nations in return for their shedding our blood
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\q1 and killing many of us, your people.
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\q1
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\v 11 Listen to your people groaning while they are in prison,
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\q2 and by your great power, free those whom our enemies say they will certainly execute.
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\q1
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\v 12 In return for their having often insulted you,
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\q1 punish them seven times as much!
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\q1
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\v 13 After you do that, we, whom you take care of as a shepherd takes care of his sheep, will continue praising you;
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\q2 we will continue to praise you from generation to generation forever.
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