Psalms 79:1-6

1 God! Barbarians have broken into your home, violated your holy temple, left Jerusalem a pile of rubble!
2 They've served up the corpses of your servants as carrion food for birds of prey, Threw the bones of your holy people out to the wild animals to gnaw on.
3 They dumped out their blood like buckets of water. All around Jerusalem, their bodies were left to rot, unburied.
4 We're nothing but a joke to our neighbors, graffiti scrawled on the city walls.
5 How long do we have to put up with this, God? Do you have it in for us for good? Will your smoldering rage never cool down?
6 If you're going to be angry, be angry with the pagans who care nothing about you, or your rival kingdoms who ignore you.
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.