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