Remember the Beit HaMikdash - Tehillim 79

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Tehillim - Psalms - Chapter 79

Chapter 79
1. A song of Asaph. O God! Nations have come into Your heritage, they have defiled Your Holy Temple, they have made Jerusalem into heaps.         א.
2. They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the heaven, the flesh of Your pious ones to the beasts of the earth.         ב.
3. They have spilt their blood like water around Jerusalem, and no one buries [them].         ג.
4. We were a disgrace to our neighbors, ridicule and derision to those around us.         ד.
5. How long, O Lord? Will You be wroth forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?         ה.
6. Pour out Your wrath upon the nations that do not know You and upon the kingdoms that did not call out in Your name.         ו.
7. For they devoured Jacob and made his dwelling desolate.         ז.
8. Do not remember for us the early iniquities; may Your mercies quickly come before us for we have become very poor.         ח.
9. Help us, O God of our salvation, on account of the glory of Your name, and save us and atone for our sins for Your name's sake.         ט.
10. Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let it be known among the nations before our eyes the revenge of the spilt blood of Your servants.         י.
11. May the cry of the prisoner come before You; according to the greatness of Your arm, set free the children of the mother who died.         יא.
12. And return to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom, their reproach with which they reproached You, O Lord.         יב.
13. But we, Your people and the flock of Your pasture, shall thank You forever; to all generations we shall recite Your praise.

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Tehillim - Psalms - Chapter 137

Chapter 137
1. By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat, we also wept when we remembered Zion.         א.
2. On willows in its midst we hung our harps.         ב.
3. For there our captors asked us for words of song and our tormentors [asked of us] mirth, "Sing for us of the song of Zion."         ג.
4. "How shall we sing the song of the Lord on foreign soil?"         ד.
5. If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget [its skill].         ה.
6. May my tongue cling to my palate, if I do not remember you, if I do not bring up Jerusalem at the beginning of my joy.         ו.
7. Remember, O Lord, for the sons of Edom, the day of Jerusalem, those who say, "Raze it, raze it, down to its foundation!"         ז.
8. O Daughter of Babylon, who is destined to be plundered, praiseworthy is he who repays you your recompense that you have done to us.         ח.
9. Praiseworthy is he who will take and dash your infants against the rock.