Salmo 79

¹Salmo de Asafe: Ó Deus, as nações invadiram a tua herança; contaminaram ao teu santo Templo; tornaram Jerusalém em amontoados de ruínas.

²Deram os cadáveres dos teus servos por comida para as aves dos céus; a carne dos teus consagrados aos animais da terra.

³Derramaram o sangue deles como água ao redor de Jerusalém, e não havia quem os enterrasse.

⁴Somos humilhados pelos nossos vizinhos; zombados e escarnecidos pelos que estão ao nosso redor.

⁵Até quando, SENHOR? Ficarás tu irado para sempre? Teus ciúmes arderão como o fogo?

⁶Derrama o teu furor sobre as nações que não te conhecem, sobre os reinos que não clamam pelo teu nome;

⁷porque devoraram Jacó, e arruinaram suas habitações.

⁸Não nos castigue pelas perversidades do passado; apressa-te, que as tuas misericórdias venham até nós, porque estamos muito fracos.

⁹Socorre-nos, ó Deus da nossa salvação, para glorificar o teu nome; livra-nos, e perdoa os nossos pecados por causa do teu nome.

¹⁰Qual é a finalidade de que as nações digam: Onde está o Deus deles?Que a vingança do sangue derramado dos teus servos seja conhecida entre as nações, diante dos nossos olhos.

¹¹Chegue diante de ti o gemido dos prisioneiros; conforme o teu grande poder, salva a vida dos sentenciados à morte.

¹²E retribui a nossos vizinhos em seus corpos sete vezes tanto dos insultos que te insultaram, ó Senhor.

¹³Assim nós, o teu povo, e as ovelhas de teu pasto, te louvaremos para sempre; de geração em geração cantaremos louvores a ti.

¹A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

²The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

³Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

⁴We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

⁵How long, Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

⁶Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.

⁷For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

⁸O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.

⁹Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name’s sake.

¹⁰Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.

¹¹Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;

¹²And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

¹³So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.

¹Psalmus Asaph. Deus, venerunt gentes in hæreditatem tuam; polluerunt templum sanctum tuum; posuerunt Jerusalem in pomorum custodiam.

²Posuerunt morticina servorum tuorum escas volatilibus cæli; carnes sanctorum tuorum bestiis terræ.

³Effuderunt sanguinem eorum tamquam aquam in circuitu Jerusalem, et non erat qui sepeliret.

⁴Facti sumus opprobrium vicinis nostris; subsannatio et illusio his qui in circuitu nostro sunt.

⁵Usquequo, Domine, irasceris in finem? accendetur velut ignis zelus tuus?

⁶Effunde iram tuam in gentes quæ te non noverunt, et in regna quæ nomen tuum non invocaverunt:

⁷quia comederunt Jacob, et locum ejus desolaverunt.

⁸Ne memineris iniquitatum nostrarum antiquarum; cito anticipent nos misericordiæ tuæ, quia pauperes facti sumus nimis.

⁹Adjuva nos, Deus salutaris noster, et propter gloriam nominis tui, Domine, libera nos: et propitius esto peccatis nostris, propter nomen tuum.

¹⁰Ne forte dicant in gentibus: Ubi est Deus eorum? et innotescat in nationibus coram oculis nostris ultio sanguinis servorum tuorum qui effusus est.

¹¹Introëat in conspectu tuo gemitus compeditorum; secundum magnitudinem brachii tui posside filios mortificatorum:

¹²et redde vicinis nostris septuplum in sinu eorum; improperium ipsorum quod exprobraverunt tibi, Domine.

¹³Nos autem populus tuus, et oves pascuæ tuæ, confitebimur tibi in sæculum; in generationem et generationem annuntiabimus laudem tuam.

¹Ψαλμὸς τῷ Ἀσάφ. Ὁ θεός, ἤλθοσαν ἔθνη εἰς τὴν κληρονομίαν σου, ἐμίαναν τὸν ναὸν τὸν ἅγιόν σου, ἔθεντο Ἰερουσαλὴμ εἰς ὀπωροφυλάκιον·

²ἔθεντο τὰ θνησιμαῖα τῶν δούλων σου βρώματα τοῖς πετεινοῖς τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, τὰς σάρκας τῶν ὁσίων σου τοῖς θηρίοις τῆς γῆς·

³ἐξέχεαν τὸ αἷμα αὐτῶν ὡς ὕδωρ κύκλῳ Ἰερουσαλήμ, καὶ οὐκ ἦν ὁ θάπτων.

⁴ἐγενήθημεν εἰς ὄνειδος τοῖς γείτοσιν ἡμῶν, μυκτηρισμὸς καὶ χλευασμὸς τοῖς κύκλῳ ἡμῶν.

⁵ἕως πότε, Κύριε, ὀργισθήσῃ εἰς τέλος; ἐκκαυθήσεται ὡς πῦρ ὁ ζῆλός σου;

⁶ἔκχεον τὴν ὀργήν σου ἐπὶ ἔθνη τὰ μὴ ἐπεγνωκότα σε, καὶ ἐπὶ βασιλείας αἳ τὸ ὄνομά σου οὐκ ἐπεκαλέσαντο·

⁷ὅτι κατέφαγον τὸν Ἰακώβ, καὶ τὸν τόπον αὐτοῦ ἠρήμωσαν.

⁸μὴ μνησθῇς ἡμῶν ἀνομιῶν ἀρχαίων· ταχὺ προκαταλαβέτωσαν ἡμᾶς οἱ οἰκτειρμοί σου, ὅτι ἐπτωχεύσαμεν σφόδρα.

⁹βοήθησον ἡμῖν, ὁ θεὸς ὁ σωτὴρ ἡμῶν, ἕνεκα τῆς δόξης τοῦ ὀνόματός σου· Κύριε, ῥῦσαι ἡμᾶς, καὶ ἱλάσθητι ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις ἡμῶν ἕνεκα τοῦ ὀνόματός σου·

¹⁰μή ποτε εἴπωσιν ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν Ποῦ ἐστιν ὁ θεὸς αὐτῶν; καὶ γνωσθήτω ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν ἐνώπιον τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν ἡμῶν ἡ ἐκδίκησις τοῦ αἵματος τῶν δούλων σου τοῦ ἐκκεχυμένου.

¹¹εἰσελθάτω ἐνώπιόν σου ὁ στεναγμὸς τῶν πεπεδημένων, κατὰ τὴν μεγαλωσύνην τοῦ βραχίονός σου, περιποίησαι τοὺς υἱοὺς τῶν τεθανατωμένων.

¹²ἀπόδος τοῖς γείτοσιν ἡμῶν ἑπταπλάσια εἰς τὸν κόλπον αὐτῶν, τὸν ὀνειδισμὸν αὐτῶν ὃν ὠνείδισάν σε, κύριε.

¹³ἡμεῖς γὰρ λαός σου καὶ πρόβατα τῆς νομῆς σου ἀνθομολογησόμεθά σοι εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα, εἰς γενεὰν καὶ γενεὰν ἐξαγγελοῦμεν τὴν αἴνεσίν σου.