79:1O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance: thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
79:2The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowl of the heavens, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth:
79:3Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.
79:4We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision to them that are round about us.
79:5How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
79:6Pour out thy fury upon the nations that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name:
79:7For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.
79:8Remember not against us the iniquities of our forefathers; let thy tender mercies speedily come to meet us: for we are brought very low.
79:9Help us, O God of our salvation, because of the glory of thy name; and deliver us, and forgive our sins, for thy name's sake.
79:10Wherefore should the nations say, Where is their God? Let the avenging of the blood of thy servants that is shed be known among the nations in our sight.
79:11Let the groaning of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thine arm, preserve those that are appointed to die;
79:12And render unto our neighbours, sevenfold into their bosom, their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
79:13And we, thy people and the sheep of thy pasture, will give thanks unto thee for ever; we will shew forth thy praise from generation to generation.
80:0To the chief Musician. On Shoshannim-Eduth. Of Asaph. A Psalm.
80:1Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that sittest between the cherubim, shine forth.
80:2Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy strength, and come to our deliverance.
80:3O God, restore us; and cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
80:4Jehovah, God of hosts, how long will thine anger smoke against the prayer of thy people?
80:5Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure:
80:6Thou hast made us a strife unto our neighbours, and our enemies mock among themselves.
80:7Restore us, O God of hosts; and cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
80:8Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt; thou didst cast out the nations, and plant it:
80:9Thou preparedst space before it, and it took deep root, and filled the land;
80:10The mountains were covered with its shadow, and the branches thereof were like cedars of *God;
80:11It sent out its boughs unto the sea, and its shoots unto the river.
80:12Why hast thou broken down its fences, so that all who pass by the way do pluck it?
80:13The boar out of the forest doth waste it, and the beast of the field doth feed off it.
80:14O God of hosts, return, we beseech thee; look down from the heavens, and behold, and visit this vine;
80:15Even the stock which thy right hand hath planted, and the young plant thou madest strong for thyself.
80:16It is burned with fire, it is cut down; they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
80:17Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou hast made strong for thyself.
80:18So will we not go back from thee. Revive us, and we will call upon thy name.
80:19Restore us, O Jehovah, God of hosts; cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
81:0To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph.
81:1Sing ye joyously unto God our strength, shout aloud unto the God of Jacob;
81:2Raise a song, and sound the tambour, the pleasant harp with the lute.
81:3Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the set time, on our feast day:
81:4For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob;
81:5He ordained it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went forth over the land of Egypt, where I heard a language that I knew not.
81:6I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.
81:7Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
81:8Hear, my people, and I will testify unto thee; O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!
81:9There shall no strange *god be in thee, neither shalt thou worship any foreign *god.
81:10I am Jehovah thy God, that brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
81:11But my people hearkened not to my voice, and Israel would none of me.
81:12So I gave them up unto their own hearts' stubbornness: they walked after their own counsels.
81:13Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, that Israel had walked in my ways!
81:14I would soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
81:15The haters of Jehovah would have come cringing unto him; but their time would have been for ever.
81:16And he would have fed them with the finest of wheat; yea, with honey out of the rock would I have satisfied thee.