Psalm 79: 9-10 Tune: Culross

Scottish Psalter
Psalm 79: 9 10
"let him to them be known"
Tune: Culross
images: James Jacques Joseph Tissot - Zacharias killed between the temple and the altar (Matthew 23)
"that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar. Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not! Behold, your house is left to you desolate. For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’” (Matthew 23: 35-39)
The images are only intended to provide resonances with some aspects of the psalm; they are not intended as a one-to-one correspondences.
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A Psalm of Asaph
PSALM 79 C.M.

1 O God, the heathen entered have
thine heritage; by them
Defilèd is thy house: on heaps
they laid Jerusalem.

2 The bodies of thy servants they
have cast forth to be meat
To rav’nous fowls; thy dear saints’ flesh
they gave to beasts to eat.

3 Their blood about Jerusalem
like water they have shed;
And there was none to bury them
when they were slain and dead.

4 Unto our neighbours a reproach
most base become are we;
A scorn and laughingstock to them
that round about us be.

5 How long, LORD, shall thine anger last?
wilt thou still keep the same?
And shall thy fervent jealousy
burn like unto a flame?

6 On heathen pour thy fury forth,
that have thee never known,
And on those kingdoms which thy name
have never called upon.

7 For these are they who Jacob have
devourèd cruelly;
And they his habitätion
have causèd waste to lie.

8 Against us mind not former sins;
thy tender mercies show;
Let them prevent us speedily,
for we’re brought very low.

9 For thy name’s glory help us, Lord,
who hast our Saviour been:
Deliver us; for thy name’s sake,
O purge away our sin.

10 Why say the heathen, Where’s their God?
let him to them be known;
When those who shed thy servants’ blood
are in our sight o’erthrown.

11 O let the pris’ner’s sighs ascend
before thy sight on high;
Preserve those in thy mighty pow’r
that are designed to die.

12 And to our neighbours’ bosom cause
it sev’n-fold rendered be,
Ev’n the reproach wherewith they have,
O Lord, reproachèd thee.

13 So we thy folk, and pasture-sheep,
shall give thee thanks always;
And unto generations all
we will show forth thy praise.

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