Psalms 79
1 For the
aSee Ps. 44, and 68, titles.end, for alternate strains, a testimony for Asaph, a
Psalm concerning the Assyrian.
2 Attend, O Shepherd of Israel, who
guidest Joseph like a flock; thou who sittest upon the cherubs, manifest
thyself; 3 before Ephraim and Benjamin
and Manasse, stir up thy power, and come to deliver us.
4 Turn us, O God, and cause thy face
to shine; and we shall be delivered.
5 O Lord God of hosts, how long art
thou angry with the prayer of thy servant?
6 Thou wilt feed us with bread of
tears; and wilt cause us to drink tears by measure.
7 Thou hast made us a strife to our
neighbours; and our enemies have mocked at us.
8 Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and
cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. Pause.
9 Thou hast transplanted a vine out of
Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
10 Thou madest a way before it, and
didst cause its roots to strike, and the land was filled
with it.
11 Its shadow covered the mountains,
and its shoots equalled the
bGr. Cedars of God, see Gen. 30. 8; Jon. 3. 3; Acts 7. 20.goodly cedars. 12 It sent forth its
branches to the sea, and its shoots to the river.
13 Wherefore hast thou broken down
its hedge, while all that pass by the way pluck it?
14 The boar out of the wood has laid
it waste, and the wild beast has devoured it.
15 O God of hosts, turn, we pray
thee: look on us from heaven, and behold and visit
this vine; 16 and restore that which
thy right hand has planted: and look on the son of man whom thou didst
strengthen for thyself. 17 It is burnt with fire and dug up: they shall perish
at the rebuke of thy
cGr. See Ps. 20. 9.presence. 18 Let thy hand be upon
the man of thy right hand, and upon the son of man whom thou didst strengthen
for thyself.
19 So will we not depart from thee:
thou shalt quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
20 Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and
make thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.