Hear Us, O Shepherd of Israel

1(79:1) For the end, for alternate strains, a testimony for Asaph, a Psalm concerning the Assyrian. Attend, O Shepherd of Israel, who guidest Joseph like a flock; thou who sittest upon the cherubs, manifest thyself;

2(79:2) before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasse, stir up thy power, and come to deliver us.

3(79:3) Turn us, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be delivered.

4(79:4) O Lord God of hosts, how long art thou angry with the prayer of thy servant?

5(79:5) Thou wilt feed us with bread of tears; and wilt cause us to drink tears by measure.

6(79:6) Thou has made us a strife to our neighbours; and our enemies have mocked at us.

7(79:7) Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. Pause.

8(79:8) Thou hast transplanted a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

9(79:9) Thou madest a way before it, and didst cause its roots to strike, and the land was filled with it.

10(79:10) Its shadow covered the mountains, and its shoots equalled the goodly cedars.

11(79:11) It sent forth its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the river.

12(79:12) Wherefore hast thou broken down its hedge, while all that pass by the way pluck it?

13(79:13) The boar out of the wood has laid it waste, and the wild beast has devoured it.

14(79:14) O God of hosts, turn, we pray thee: look on us from heaven, and behold and visit this vine;

15(79:15) and restore that which thy right hand has planted: and look on the son of man whom thou didst strengthen for thyself.

16(79:16) It is burnt with fire and dug up: they shall perish at the rebuke of thy presence.

17(79:17) Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, and upon the son of man whom thou didst strengthen for thyself.

18(79:18) So will we not depart from thee: thou shalt quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.

19(79:19) Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and make thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.