Psalms 79 — LXXSB

(80) For the⁺end, for alternate strains, a testimony for Asaph, a Psalm concerning the Assyrian.

79Verse 1Attend, O Shepherd of Israel, who guide Joseph like a flock; you who sit upon the cherubs, manifest yourself;
^{Verse 2}before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasse, stir up your power, and come to deliver us.
^{Verse 3}Turn us, O God, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be delivered.
^{Verse 4}O Lord God of hosts, how long are you angry with the prayer of your servant?
^{Verse 5}You will feed us with bread of tears; and will cause us to drink tears by measure.
^{Verse 6}You have made us a strife to our neighbours; and our enemies have mocked at us.
^{Verse 7}Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved. Pause.
^{Verse 8}You have transplanted a vine out of Egypt: you have cast out the heathen, and planted it.
^{Verse 9}You made a way before it, and did cause its roots to strike, and the land was filled with it.
^{Verse 10}Its shadow covered the mountains, and its shoots equalled the⁺goodly cedars.
^{Verse 11}It sent forth its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the river.
^{Verse 12}Therefore have you broken down its hedge, while all that pass by the way pluck it?
^{Verse 13}The boar out of the wood has laid it waste, and the wild beast has devoured it.
^{Verse 14}O God of hosts, turn, we pray you: look on us from heaven, and behold and visit this vine;
^{Verse 15}and restore that which your right hand has planted: and look on the son of man whom you did strengthen for yourself.
^{Verse 16}It is burnt with fire and dug up: they shall perish at the rebuke of your⁺presence.
^{Verse 17}Let your hand be upon the man of your right hand, and upon the son of man whom you did strengthen for yourself.
^{Verse 18}So will we not depart from you: you shall quicken us, and we will call upon your name.
^{Verse 19}Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and make your face to shine; and we shall be saved.