Psalms 79

1 Εἰς τὸ τέλος, ὑπὲρ τῶν ἀλλοιωθησομένων, μαρτύριον τῷ Ἀσὰφ, ψαλμὸς ὑπὲρ τοῦ Ἀσσυρίου.

2 Ὁ Ποιμαίνων τὸν Ἰσραὴλ πρόσχες, ὁ ὁδηγῶν ὡσεὶ πρόβατα τὸν Ἰωσήφ· ὁ καθήμενος ἐπὶ τῶν χερουβὶμ ἐμφάνηθι,

3 ἐναντίον Ἐφραὶμ καὶ Βενιαμὶν καὶ Μανασσῆ· ἐξέγειρον τὴν δυναστείαν σου καὶ ἐλθὲ εἰς τὸ σῶσαι ἡμᾶς.

4 Ὁ Θεὸς ἐπίστρεψον ἡμᾶς, καὶ ἐπίφανον τὸ πρόσωπόν σου, καὶ σωθησόμεθα.

5 Κύριε ὁ Θεὸς τῶν δυνάμεων, ἕως πότε ὀργίζῃ ἐπὶ τὴν προσευχὴν τοῦ δούλου σου;

6 Ψωμιεῖς ἡμᾶς ἄρτον δακρύων, καὶ ποτιεῖς ἡμᾶς ἐν δάκρυσιν ἐν μέτρῳ.

7 Ἔθου ἡμᾶς εἰς ἀντιλογίαν τοῖς γείτοσιν ἡμῶν, καὶ οἱ ἐχθροὶ ἡμῶν ἐμυκτήρισαν ἡμᾶς.

8 Κύριε ὁ Θεὸς τῶν δυνάμεων ἐπίστρεψον ἡμᾶς, καὶ ἐπίφανον τὸ πρόσωπόν σου, καὶ σωθησόμεθα· διάψαλμα.

9 Ἄμπελον ἐξ Αἰγύπτου μετῇρας, ἐξέβαλες ἔθνη καὶ κατεφύτευσας αὐτήν.

10 Ὡδοποίησας ἔμπροσθεν αὐτῆς, καὶ κατεφύτευσας τὰς ῥίζας αὐτῆς, καὶ ἐπλήσθη ἡ γῆ.

11 Ἐκάλυψεν ὄρη ἡ σκιὰ αὐτῆς, καὶ αἱ ἀναδενδράδες αὐτῆς τὰς κέδρους τοῦ Θεοῦ.

12 Ἐξέτεινε τὰ κλήματα αὐτῆς ἕως θαλάσσης, καὶ ἕως ποταμοῦ τὰς παραφυάδας αὐτῆς.

13 Ἱνατί καθεῖλες τὸν φραγμὸν αὐτῆς, καὶ τρυγῶσιν αὐτὴν πάντες οἱ παραπορευόμενοι τὴν ὁδόν;

14 Ἐλυμῄνατο αὐτὴν σῦς ἐκ δρυμοῦ, καὶ μονιὸς ἄγριος κατενεμήσατο αὐτήν.

15 Ὁ Θεὸς τῶν δυνάμεων ἐπίστρεψον δὴ, ἐπίβλεψον ἐξ οὐρανοῦ καὶ ἴδε, καὶ ἐπίσκεψαι τὴν ἄμπελον ταύτην·

16 Καὶ κατάρτισαι αὐτὴν, ἣν ἐφύτευσεν ἡ δεξιά σου, καὶ ἐπὶ υἱὸν ἀνθρώπου ὃν ἐκραταίωσας σεαυτῷ.

17 Ἐμπεπυρισμένη πυρὶ καὶ ἀνεσκαμμένη· ἀπὸ ἐπιτιμήσεως τοῦ προσώπου σου ἀπολοῦνται.

18 Γενηθήτω ἡ χείρ σου ἐπʼ ἄνδρα δεξιᾶς σου, καὶ ἐπὶ υἱὸν ἀνθρώπου, ὃν ἐκραταίωσας σεαυτῷ.

19 Καὶ οὐ μὴ ἀποστῶμεν ἀπὸ σοῦ, ζωώσεις ἡμᾶς, καὶ τὸ ὄνομά σου ἐπικαλεσόμεθα.

20 Κύριε ὁ Θεὸς τῶν δυνάμεων ἐπίστρεψον ἡμᾶς, καὶ ἐπίφανον τὸ πρόσωπόν σου, καὶ σωθησόμεθα.

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

See Ps. 44, and 68, titles.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cedars of God, see Gen. 30. 8; Jon. 3. 3; Acts 7. 20.

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

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

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

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

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

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

See Ps. 20. 9.

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

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

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