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Psalms 79
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1(80) For the end, for alternate [strains], a testimony for Asaph, a Psalm concerning the Assyrian. Attend, O Shepherd of Israel, who guide Joseph like a flock; you who sit upon the cherubs, manifest yourself;
1O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
2before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasse, stir up your power, and come to deliver us.
2The 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.
3Turn us, O God, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be delivered.
3Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
4O Lord God of hosts, how long are you angry with the prayer of your servant?
4We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
5You will feed us with bread of tears; and will cause us to drink tears by measure.
5How long, Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
6You have made us a strife to our neighbors; and our enemies have mocked at us.
6Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
7Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved. Pause.
7For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
8You have transplanted a vine out of Egypt: you have cast out the heathen, and planted it.
8O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
9You made a way before it, and did cause its roots to strike, and the land was filled [with it].
9Help 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.
10Its shadow covered the mountains, and its shoots [equalled] the goodly cedars.
10Wherefore 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.
11It sent forth its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the river.
11Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;
12Therefore have you broken down its hedge, while all that pass by the way pluck it?
12And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
13The boar out of the wood has laid it waste, and the wild beast has devoured it.
13So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.