Psalms 79; Psalms 80

1 The nations have come into your inheritance, God! They've defiled your holy temple. They've made Jerusalem a bunch of ruins.

2 They've left your servants' bodies as food for the birds; they've left the flesh of your faithful to the wild animals of the earth.

3 They've poured out the blood of the faithful like water all around Jerusalem, and there's no one left to bury them.

4 We've become a joke to our neighbors, nothing but objects of ridicule and disapproval to those around us.

5 How long will you rage, LORD? Forever? How long will your anger burn like fire?

6 Pour out your wrath on the nations who don't know you, on the kingdoms that haven't called on your name.

7 They've devoured Jacob and demolished his pasture.

8 Don't remember the iniquities of past generations; let your compassion hurry to meet us because we've been brought so low.

9 God of our salvation, help us for the glory of your name! Deliver us and cover our sins for the sake of your name!

10 Why should the nations say, "Where's their God now?" Let vengeance for the spilled blood of your servants be known among the nations before our very eyes!

11 Let the prisoners' groaning reach you. With your powerful arm spare those who are destined to die.

12 Pay back our neighbors seven times over, right where it hurts, for the insults they used on you, Lord.

13 We are, after all, your people and the sheep of your very own pasture. We will give you thanks forever; we will proclaim your praises from one generation to the next.

1 Shepherd of Israel, listen! You, the one who leads Joseph as if he were a sheep. You, who are enthroned upon the winged heavenly creatures. Show yourself

2 before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh! Wake up your power! Come to save us!

3 Restore us, God! Make your face shine so that we can be saved!

4 LORD God of heavenly forces, how long will you fume against your people's prayer?

5 You've fed them bread made of tears; you've given them tears to drink three times over!

6 You've put us at odds with our neighbors; our enemies make fun of us.

7 Restore us, God of heavenly forces! Make your face shine so that we can be saved!

8 You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations and planted it.

9 You cleared the ground for it; then it planted its roots deep, filling the land.

10 The mountains were covered by its shade; the mighty cedars were covered by its branches.

11 It sent its branches all the way to the sea; its shoots went all the way to the Euphrates River.

12 So why have you now torn down its walls so that all who come along can pluck its fruit,

13 so that any boar from the forest can tear it up, so that the bugs can feed on it?

14 Please come back, God of heavenly forces! Look down from heaven and perceive it! Attend to this vine,

15 this root that you planted with your strong hand, this son whom you secured as your very own.

16 It is burned with fire. It is chopped down. They die at the rebuke coming from you.

17 Let your hand be with the one on your right side— with the one whom you secured as your own—

18 then we will not turn away from you! Revive us so that we can call on your name.

19 Restore us, LORD God of heavenly forces! Make your face shine so that we can be saved!