Psalms 79 — UBES

79Verse 1For the end, for alternate strains, a testimony for Asaph, a Psalm concerning the Assyrian.^{Verse 2}Attend, O Shepherd of Israel,
Who guidest Joseph like a flock;
Thou who sittest upon the cherubs, manifest thyself;
^{Verse 3}Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh,
Stir up thy power,
And come to deliver us.
^{Verse 4}Turn us, O God,
And cause thy face to shine; and we shall be delivered.^{Verse 5}O Lord God of hosts,
How long art thou angry with the prayer of thy servant?
^{Verse 6}Thou wilt feed us with bread of tears;
And wilt cause us to drink tears by measure.
^{Verse 7}Thou hast made us a strife to our neighbors;
And our enemies have mocked at us.
^{Verse 8}Turn us, O Lord God of hosts,
And cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. Pause.^{Verse 9}Thou hast transplanted a vine out of Egypt:
Thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
^{Verse 10}Thou madest a way before it,
And didst cause its roots to strike, and the land was filled with it.
^{Verse 11}Its shadow covered the mountains,
And its shoots equaled the goodly cedars.
^{Verse 12}It sent forth its branches to the sea,
And its shoots to the river.
^{Verse 13}Wherefore hast thou broken down its hedge,
While all that pass by the way pluck it?
^{Verse 14}The boar out of the wood has laid it waste,
And the wild beast has devoured it.^{Verse 15}O God of hosts, turn, we pray thee:
Look on us from heaven,
And behold and visit this vine;
^{Verse 16}And restore that which thy right hand has planted:
And look on the son of man whom thou didst strengthen for thyself.
^{Verse 17}It is burned with fire and dug up:
They shall perish at the rebuke of thy presence.
^{Verse 18}Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand,
And upon the son of man whom thou didst strengthen for thyself.^{Verse 19}So will we not depart from thee:
Thou shalt quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
^{Verse 20}Turn us, O Lord God of hosts,
And make thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.