79:0 ^[514] KJV Chapter [80] To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim- Eduth, A Psalm of Asaph:

79:1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest [between] the cherubims, shine forth:

79:2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come [and] save us:

79:3 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved:

79:4 O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people:

79:5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure:

79:6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves:

79:7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved:

79:8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it:

79:9 Thou preparedst [room] before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land:

79:10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof [were like] the goodly cedars:

79:11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river:

79:12 Why hast thou [then] broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her:

79:13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it:

79:14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine:

79:15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch [that] thou madest strong for thyself:

79:16 It is burned with fire, [it is] cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance:

79:17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man [whom] thou madest strong for thyself:

79:18 So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name:

79:19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved: