---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Psalms from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 79
verse_count: 13
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Psalms, chap. 79, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Psalms 79

*Tfie desolation of Jerusalem David praytth for its deliverance. A Psalm of Asaph.*

**1** Ogod, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
**2** 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.
**5** How long, Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
**6** 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** Oh remember not against us former iniquities; let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us; for we are brought very low.
**9** 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;
**12** And render unto our neighbours seven-fold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
**13** So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever; we will show forth thy praise to all generations.