OUR FATHER TO WHOM WE CALL FOR HELP

Psalm 79 verses 3 - 4 says this;

They have poured out blood like water all around Jerusalem,  and there is no one to bury the dead.

We are objects of contempt to our neighbors, of scorn and derision to those around us.

This passage captures a time of death and mayhem in the nation of Israel. Hatred and scorn towards the children of Jacob is amplified among their neighbours.

In the shock of the attack against them, the people ask God to relent from His anger. They call on the Lord to intervene to save them in their time of desperation so that His name would be glorified.

The psalm ends with a request to the Lord to save the captives condemned to death at the hands of their captors. 

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

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

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

Amen.

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