Focused Passage
The Defiled Sanctuary, the Reproached People, and the God Who Atones for His Name
The psalm moves from the desecrated inheritance and slaughtered servants, to the shame of national reproach, to urgent questions about God's anger, to confession-aware petitions for mercy and atonement, to pleas for public vindication, and finally to the vow of generational praise from God's sheep.
Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources
5How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
6Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,
7for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.
8Do not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come quickly, for we are brought low.
9Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; deliver us and atone for our sins, for the sake of Your name.
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