诗79:1 亚萨的诗。 神啊！外族人侵入你的产业，污秽了你的圣殿，使耶路撒冷成为废墟。（本节在《马索拉抄本》包括细字标题）
诗79:1 <A Psalm. Of Asaph.> O God, the nations have come into your heritage; they have made your holy Temple unclean; they have made Jerusalem a mass of broken walls.
诗79:2 他们把你仆人的尸首，给空中的飞鸟啄食；把你圣民的肉，给地上的野兽吞噬。
诗79:2 They have given the bodies of your servants as food to the birds of the air, and the flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth.
诗79:3 他们在耶路撒冷的周围把圣民的血像水一般倒出，没有人埋葬他们。
诗79:3 Their blood has been flowing like water round about Jerusalem; there was no one to put them in their last resting-place.
诗79:4 我们成为邻国羞辱的对象，成为四周的人嗤笑和讥刺的目标。
诗79:4 We are looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and made sport of by those who are round us.
诗79:5 耶和华啊！要到几时呢？你要永远怀怒吗？你的愤恨要像火焚烧吗？
诗79:5 How long, O Lord? will you be angry for ever? will your wrath go on burning like fire?
诗79:6 愿你把你的烈怒，倾倒在不认识你的外族人，和不求告你名的列国身上。
诗79:6 Let your wrath be on the nations who have no knowledge of you, and on the kingdoms who have not made prayer to your name.
诗79:7 因为他们吞吃了雅各，使他的住处荒凉。
诗79:7 For they have taken Jacob for their meat, and made waste his house.
诗79:8 求你不要记住我们祖先的罪孽；愿你的怜悯快快临到我们，因为我们落到极卑微的地步。
诗79:8 Do not keep in mind against us the sins of our fathers; let your mercy come to us quickly, for we have been made very low.
诗79:9 拯救我们的 神啊！求你因你名的荣耀帮助我们；为你名的缘故，搭救我们，赦免我们的罪。
诗79:9 Give us help, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; take us out of danger and give us forgiveness for our sins, because of your name.
诗79:10 为什么容外族人说：“他们的 神在哪里呢？”愿我们亲眼看见你在列邦中，使人知道你要为你仆人所流的血伸冤。
诗79:10 Why may the nations say, Where is their God? Let payment for the blood of your servants be made openly among the nations before our eyes.
诗79:11 愿被囚的人的唉哼，达到你面前；愿你用你的大能，使那些已定死罪的人可以存留。
诗79:11 Let the cry of the prisoner come before you; with your strong arm make free the children of death;
诗79:12 主啊！愿你把我们邻国羞辱你的羞辱，七倍归还在他们身上。
诗79:12 And give punishment seven times over into the breast of our neighbours for the bitter words which they have said against you, O Lord.
诗79:13 这样，我们作你的子民，作你牧场上的羊的，要永远称谢你；我们要世世代代述说你可称颂的事。
诗79:13 So we your people, and the sheep of your flock, will give you glory for ever: we will go on praising you through all generations.