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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;
1A Psalm by Asaph. God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
2before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasse, stir up your power, and come to deliver us.
2They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.
3Turn us, O God, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be delivered.
3They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.
4O Lord God of hosts, how long are you angry with the prayer of your servant?
4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
5You will feed us with bread of tears; and will cause us to drink tears by measure.
5How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
6You have made us a strife to our neighbors; and our enemies have mocked at us.
6Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your 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 destroyed his homeland.
8You have transplanted a vine out of Egypt: you have cast out the heathen, and planted it.
8Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.
9You made a way before it, and did cause its roots to strike, and the land was filled [with it].
9Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.
10Its shadow covered the mountains, and its shoots [equalled] the goodly cedars.
10Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.
11It sent forth its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the river.
11Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.
12Therefore have you broken down its hedge, while all that pass by the way pluck it?
12Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
13The boar out of the wood has laid it waste, and the wild beast has devoured it.
13So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.