mkjv - Psalms:79-80

mkjv@Psalms:79:1 @ A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the nations have come into Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

mkjv@Psalms:79:2 @ They have given the dead bodies of Your servants [as] food for the birds of the heavens, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.

mkjv@Psalms:79:3 @ They have shed their blood like water round about Jerusalem, and none to bury.

mkjv@Psalms:79:4 @ We have become a shame to our neighbors, a scorn and mockery to those who are around us.

mkjv@Psalms:79:5 @ How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Shall Your jealousy burn like fire?

mkjv@Psalms:79:6 @ Pour out Your wrath on the nations who have not known You, and on the kingdoms who have not called on Your name.

mkjv@Psalms:79:7 @ For [they have] eaten up Jacob, and wasted his dwelling-place.

mkjv@Psalms:79:8 @ O do not remember against us our former sins; let Your tender mercies meet us quickly; for we are brought very low.

mkjv@Psalms:79:9 @ Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; and deliver us, and atone for our sins, for Your name's sake.

mkjv@Psalms:79:10 @ Why should the nations say, Where [is] their God? Let Him be known among the nations before our eyes [by] the revenging of the blood of Your servants [which is] shed.

mkjv@Psalms:79:11 @ Let the groaning of the prisoner come before You; according to the greatness of Your power, leave a remnant of those who are to die,

mkjv@Psalms:79:12 @ and give to our neighbors their curse sevenfold into their bosom, the curse with which they have cursed You, O Lord.

mkjv@Psalms:79:13 @ Then we, Your people and sheep of Your pasture, will give You thanks forever; we will show forth Your praise to all generations.

mkjv@Psalms:80:1 @ To the Chief Musician. A Testimony Concerning the Lilies. A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, You who lead Joseph like a flock; You dwelling between the cherubs, shine forth.

mkjv@Psalms:80:2 @ Stir up Your strength before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, and come, save us.

mkjv@Psalms:80:3 @ Turn us again, O God, and cause Your face to shine, and we shall be saved!

mkjv@Psalms:80:4 @ O LORD God of hosts, how long will You be angry against the prayer of Your people?

mkjv@Psalms:80:5 @ You feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink in great measure.

mkjv@Psalms:80:6 @ You make us a strife for our neighbors; and our enemies laugh among themselves.

mkjv@Psalms:80:7 @ Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause Your face to shine; and we shall be saved.

mkjv@Psalms:80:8 @ You have brought a vine out of Egypt; You have cast out the nations and planted it.

mkjv@Psalms:80:9 @ You cleared before it, and caused it to take deep root; and it filled the land.

mkjv@Psalms:80:10 @ The hills were covered [with] its shadow, and its boughs [were as] the great cedars.

mkjv@Psalms:80:11 @ It sent out its boughs to the sea, and its branches to the river.

mkjv@Psalms:80:12 @ Why have You broken down its hedges, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?

mkjv@Psalms:80:13 @ The boar out of the wood wastes it, and the wild beast of the field eats it.

mkjv@Psalms:80:14 @ Return, we beg You, O God of hosts; look down from Heaven, and behold, and visit this vine,

mkjv@Psalms:80:15 @ and the vineyard which Your right hand has planted, and the Son [that] You make strong for Yourself.

mkjv@Psalms:80:16 @ [It is] burned with fire, and cut down; they perish at the rebuke of Your holy face.

mkjv@Psalms:80:17 @ Let Your hand be on the Man of Your right hand, on the Son of man [whom] You have made strong for Yourself.

mkjv@Psalms:80:18 @ So we will not go back from You; make us live, and we will call on Your name.

mkjv@Psalms:80:19 @ Turn us again, O LORD God of Hosts; cause Your face to shine, and we shall be saved.

mkjv@Psalms:81:1 @ To the Chief Musician. On Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob.