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A favorite
psalm for persecuted people, French Huguenots and English Puritans.
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¶ <<A Psalm of Asaph.>> O God, the heathen are come into thine
inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem
on heaps.
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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.
3 Their blood have they shed
like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
4 We are become a reproach
to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
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How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like
fire? |
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Dead
bodies At the destruction of Jerusalem.
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Saints
Literally, "Holy ones." |
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¶ Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and
upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
7 For they have devoured Jacob,
and laid waste his dwelling place.
8 O remember not against us
former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are
brought very low. |
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Wrath
upon the heathen This verse, ignoring the context might support
the idea of a Messiah that would destroy or conquer the non-Jewish nations.
(Heathen is from goee. Also meaning nation or people.) |
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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.
10 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.
11 Let the sighing of the
prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve
thou those that are appointed to die;
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And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach,
wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord. |
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So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever:
we will shew forth thy praise to all generations. |
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