Psalm 79:1-9
1 A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the Gentiles have entered into your inheritance; they have polluted your holy temple. They have set Jerusalem as a place to tend fruit trees. 2 They have placed the dead bodies of your servants as food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints for the beasts of the earth. 3 They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one who would bury them. 4 We have become a disgrace to our neighbors, an object of ridicule and mockery to those who are around us. 5 How long, O Lord? Will you be angry until the end? Will your zeal be kindled like a fire? 6 Pour out your wrath among the Gentiles, who have not known you, and upon the kingdoms that have not invoked your name. 7 For they have devoured Jacob, and they have desolated his place. 8 Do not remember our iniquities of the past. May your mercies quickly intercept us, for we have become exceedingly poor. 9 Help us, O God, our Savior. And free us, Lord, for the glory of your name. And forgive us our sins for the sake of your name. 2 Kings 24:8-17 8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for three months in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan, from Jerusalem. 9 And he did evil before the Lord, in accord with all that his father had done. 10 At that time, the servants of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, ascended against Jerusalem. And the city was encircled with fortifications. 11 And Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, went to the city, with his servants, so that he might fight against it. 12 And Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his leaders, and his eunuchs. And the king of Babylon received him, in the eighth year of his reign. 13 And he took from there all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the house of the king. And he cut up all the gold vessels which Solomon, the king of Israel, had made for the temple of the Lord, in accord with the word of the Lord. 14 And he carried away all of Jerusalem, and all the leaders, and all the strong men of the army, ten thousand, into captivity, with every artisan and craftsman. And no one was left behind, except the poor among the people of the land. 15 Also, he carried away Jehoiachin into Babylon, and the mother of the king, and the wives of the king, and his eunuchs. And he led into captivity the judges of the land, from Jerusalem to Babylon, 16 and all the robust men, seven thousand, and the artisans and craftsman, one thousand: all who were strong men and fit for war. And the king of Babylon led them away as captives, into Babylon. 17 And he appointed Mattaniah, his uncle, in his place. And he imposed the name Zedekiah upon him.
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