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Apoteichisis

The Old Testament

Psalms 79

ΨΑΛΜΟΙ · 79

Brenton 79:1

For the end, for alternate strains, a testimony for Asaph, a Psalm concerning the Assyrian.

Source notes (1)
  • See Ps. 44, and 68, titles.
Brenton 79:2

Attend, O Shepherd of Israel, who guidest Joseph like a flock; thou who sittest upon the cherubs, manifest thyself;

Brenton 79:3

before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasse, stir up thy power, and come to deliver us.

Brenton 79:4

Turn us, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be delivered.

Brenton 79:5

O Lord God of hosts, how long art thou angry with the prayer of thy servant?

Brenton 79:6

Thou wilt feed us with bread of tears; and wilt cause us to drink tears by measure.

Brenton 79:7

Thou hast made us a strife to our neighbours; and our enemies have mocked at us.

Brenton 79:8

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

Brenton 79:9

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

Brenton 79:10

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

Brenton 79:11

Its shadow covered the mountains, and its shoots equalled the goodly cedars.

Source notes (1)
  • Gr. Cedars of God, see Gen. 30. 8; Jon. 3. 3; Acts 7. 20.
Brenton 79:12

It sent forth its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the river.

Brenton 79:13

Wherefore hast thou broken down its hedge, while all that pass by the way pluck it?

Brenton 79:14

The boar out of the wood has laid it waste, and the wild beast has devoured it.

Brenton 79:15

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

Brenton 79:16

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

Brenton 79:17

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

Source notes (1)
  • Gr. See Ps. 20. 9.
Brenton 79:18

Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, and upon the son of man whom thou didst strengthen for thyself.

Brenton 79:19

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

Brenton 79:20

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

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