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Psalms 79
Septuagint (LXX2012) 79 compared with World English Bible 80
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1(80) For the end, for alternate [strains], a testimony for Asaph, a Psalm concerning the Assyrian. Attend, O Shepherd of Israel, who guide Joseph like a flock; you who sit upon the cherubs, manifest yourself;
1For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” A Psalm by Asaph. Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.
2before Ephraim and Benjaminand Manasse, stir up your power, and come to deliver us.
2Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us!
3Turn us , O God, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be delivered.
3Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
4O Lord God of hosts, how long are you angry with the prayer of your servant?
4Yahweh God of Armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
5You will feed us with bread of tears; and will cause us to drink tears by measure.
5You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
6You have made us a strife to our neighbors; and our enemies have mocked at us.
6You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.
7Turn us , O Lord God of hosts, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved. Pause.
7Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
8You have transplanted a vine out of Egypt: you have cast out the heathen, and planted it.
8You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.
9You made a way before it, and did cause its roots to strike, and the land was filled [with it].
9You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land.
10Its shadow covered the mountains, and its shoots [equalled] the goodly cedars.
10The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God’s cedars.
11It sent forth its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the river.
11It sent out its branches to the sea, its shoots to the River.
12Therefore have you broken down its hedge, while all that pass by the way pluck it?
12Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?
13The boar out of the wood has laid it waste, and the wild beast has devoured it.
13The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.
14O God of hosts, turn, we pray you: look on [us] from heaven, and behold and visit this vine;
14Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,
15and restore that which your right hand has planted: and look on the son of man whom you did strengthen for yourself.
15the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself.
16[It is] burnt with fire and dug up: they shall perish at the rebuke of your presence.
16It’s burned with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke.
17Let your hand be upon the man of your right hand, and upon the son of man whom you did strengthen for yourself.
17Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.
18So will we not depart from you: you shall quicken us, and we will call upon your name.
18So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.
19Turn us , O Lord God of hosts, and make your face to shine; and we shall be saved.
19Turn us again, Yahweh God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.