78:56Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

78:57But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

78:58For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

78:59When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

78:60So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;

78:61And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.

78:62He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.

78:63The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.

78:64Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.

78:65Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

78:66And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.

78:67Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

78:68But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.

78:69And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.

78:70He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:

78:71From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

78:72So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

79:1(A Psalm of Asaph.) O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

79:2The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

79:3Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

79:4We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

79:5How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

79:6Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.

79:7For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

79:8O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.

79:9Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.

79:10Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.

79:11Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;

79:12And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

79:13So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.

80:1(To the chief Musician upon Shoshannimeduth, A Psalm of Asaph.) Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.

80:2Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.

80:3Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

80:4O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

80:5Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

80:6Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

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

80:8Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

80:9Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

80:10The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.

80:11She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.

80:12Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

80:13The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.

80:14Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;

80:15And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.

80:16It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

80:17Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.

80:18So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.

80:19Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

81:1(To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph.) Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.