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PSALME 79. (Book 79)
A Prayer that God would deliver his Church from the cruelty of all her persecutors.
MORNING PRAYER. (Book 79)
O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance: thy holy temple have they defiled, and made Ierusalem an heap of stones.
2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the aire: and the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the land.
3 Their blood have they shed like water on e∣very side of Ierusalem: and there was no man to bury them.
4 We are become an open shame to our ene∣mies: a very scorn and derision unto them that are round about us.
5 Lord, how long wilt thou be angry: shall thy iealousie burn like fire for ever?
6 Poure out thine indignation upon the hea∣then that have not known thee: and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy namē.
7 For they have devoured Iacob: and laid waste his dwelling place.