Top Verses from Psalms 79  

A psalm of Asaph. O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple, they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble. (NIV)

A Psalm of Asaph. O GOD, the nations have come into [the land of Your people] Your inheritance; Your sacred temple have they defiled; they have made Jerusalem heaps of ruins. (AMP)

O god, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. (KJV)

Help us, God our Savior, for the glory of your name; deliver us and forgive our sins for your name's sake. (NIV)

Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name! Deliver us, forgive us, and purge away our sins for Your name's sake. (AMP)

Help 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. (KJV)

Then we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will praise you forever; from generation to generation we will proclaim your praise. (NIV)

Then we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, will give You thanks forever; we will show forth and publish Your praise from generation to generation. (AMP)

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

How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? How long will your jealousy burn like fire? (NIV)

How long, O Lord? Will You be angry forever? Shall Your jealousy [which cannot endure a divided allegiance] burn like fire? (AMP)

How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire? (KJV)

Do not hold against us the sins of past generations; may your mercy come quickly to meet us, for we are in desperate need. (NIV)

O do not [earnestly] remember against us the iniquities and guilt of our forefathers! Let Your compassion and tender mercy speedily come to meet us, for we are brought very low. (AMP)

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

Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge you, on the kingdoms that do not call on your name (NIV)

Pour out Your wrath on the Gentile nations who do not acknowledge You, and upon the kingdoms that do not call on Your name. [II Thess. 1:8.] (AMP)

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

Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Before our eyes, make known among the nations that you avenge the outpoured blood of your servants. (NIV)

Why should the Gentile nations say, Where is their God? Let vengeance for the blood of Your servants which is poured out be known among the nations in our sight [not delaying until some future generation]. (AMP)

Wherefore 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. (KJV)

May the groans of the prisoners come before you; with your strong arm preserve those condemned to die. (NIV)

Let the groaning and sighing of the prisoner come before You; according to the greatness of Your power and Your arm spare those who are appointed to die! (AMP)

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

They have left the dead bodies of your servants as food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your own people for the animals of the wild. (NIV)

The dead bodies of Your servants they have given as food to the birds of the heavens, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth. (AMP)

The 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. (KJV)

Pay back into the laps of our neighbors seven times the contempt they have hurled at you, Lord. (NIV)

And return into the bosom of our neighbors sevenfold the taunts with which they have taunted and scoffed at You, O Lord! (AMP)

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