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         <div class="label">79</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 79</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A psalm of Asaph.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.79.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.79.1"><span class="content">they have defiled your holy temple,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.79.1"><span class="content">they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.79.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.79.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">They have left the dead bodies of your servants</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.79.2"><span class="content">as food for the birds of the sky,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.79.2"><span class="content">the flesh of your own people for the animals of the wild.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.79.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.79.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">They have poured out blood like water</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.79.3"><span class="content">all around Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.79.3"><span class="content">and there is no one to bury the dead.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.79.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.79.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">We are objects of contempt to our neighbors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.79.4"><span class="content">of scorn and derision to those around us.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.79.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.79.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">How long, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">? Will you be angry forever?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.79.5"><span class="content">How long will your jealousy burn like fire?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.79.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.79.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Pour out your wrath on the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.79.6"><span class="content">that do not acknowledge you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.79.6"><span class="content">on the kingdoms</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.79.6"><span class="content">that do not call on your name;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.79.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.79.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">for they have devoured Jacob</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.79.7"><span class="content">and devastated his homeland.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.79.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.79.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Do not hold against us the sins of past generations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.79.8"><span class="content">may your mercy come quickly to meet us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.79.8"><span class="content">for we are in desperate need.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.79.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.79.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Help us, God our Savior,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.79.9"><span class="content">for the glory of your name;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.79.9"><span class="content">deliver us and forgive our sins</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.79.9"><span class="content">for your name&#8217;s sake.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.79.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.79.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Why should the nations say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.79.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Where is their God?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.79.10"><span class="content">Before our eyes, make known among the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.79.10"><span class="content">that you avenge the outpoured blood of your servants.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.79.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.79.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">May the groans of the prisoners come before you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.79.11"><span class="content">with your strong arm preserve those condemned to die.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.79.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.79.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Pay back into the laps of our neighbors seven times</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.79.12"><span class="content">the contempt they have hurled at you, Lord.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.79.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.79.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then we your people, the sheep of your pasture,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.79.13"><span class="content">will praise you forever;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.79.13"><span class="content">from generation to generation</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.79.13"><span class="content">we will proclaim your praise.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">80</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 80</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 80:1-19 is numbered 80:2-20.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. To the tune of &#8220;The Lilies of the Covenant.&#8221; Of Asaph. A psalm.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.80.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear us, Shepherd of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.80.1"><span class="content">you who lead Joseph like a flock.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.80.1"><span class="content">You who sit enthroned between the cherubim,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.80.1"><span class="content">shine forth </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.80.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">before Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasseh.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.80.2"><span class="content">Awaken your might;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.80.2"><span class="content">come and save us.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.80.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.80.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Restore us, O God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.80.3"><span class="content">make your face shine on us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.80.3"><span class="content">that we may be saved.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.80.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.80.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">How long, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.80.4"><span class="content">will your anger smolder</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.80.4"><span class="content">against the prayers of your people?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.80.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.80.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You have fed them with the bread of tears;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.80.5"><span class="content">you have made them drink tears by the bowlful.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.80.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.80.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You have made us an object of derision</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">80:6 </span><span class="ft">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">contention</span></span></span><span class="content"> to our neighbors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.80.6"><span class="content">and our enemies mock us.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.80.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.80.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Restore us, God Almighty;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.80.7"><span class="content">make your face shine on us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.80.7"><span class="content">that we may be saved.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.80.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.80.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">You transplanted a vine from Egypt;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.80.8"><span class="content">you drove out the nations and planted it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.80.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.80.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You cleared the ground for it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.80.9"><span class="content">and it took root and filled the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.80.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.80.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The mountains were covered with its shade,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.80.10"><span class="content">the mighty cedars with its branches.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.80.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.80.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Its branches reached as far as the Sea,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">80:11 </span><span class="ft">Probably the Mediterranean</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.80.11"><span class="content">its shoots as far as the River.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">80:11 </span><span class="ft">That is, the Euphrates</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.80.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.80.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Why have you broken down its walls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.80.12"><span class="content">so that all who pass by pick its grapes?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.80.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.80.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Boars from the forest ravage it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.80.13"><span class="content">and insects from the fields feed on it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.80.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.80.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Return to us, God Almighty!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.80.14"><span class="content">Look down from heaven and see!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.80.14"><span class="content">Watch over this vine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.80.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.80.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">the root your right hand has planted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.80.15"><span class="content">the son</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">80:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">branch</span></span></span><span class="content"> you have raised up for yourself.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.80.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.80.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Your vine is cut down, it is burned with fire;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.80.16"><span class="content">at your rebuke your people perish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.80.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.80.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Let your hand rest on the man at your right hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.80.17"><span class="content">the son of man you have raised up for yourself.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.80.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.80.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then we will not turn away from you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.80.18"><span class="content">revive us, and we will call on your name.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.80.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.80.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Restore us, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God Almighty;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.80.19"><span class="content">make your face shine on us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.80.19"><span class="content">that we may be saved.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch81" data-usfm="PSA.81">
         <div class="label">81</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 81</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 81:1-16 is numbered 81:2-17.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. According to </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">gittith.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> Of Asaph.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.81.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Sing for joy to God our strength;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.81.1"><span class="content">shout aloud to the God of Jacob!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.81.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.81.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Begin the music, strike the timbrel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.81.2"><span class="content">play the melodious harp and lyre.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.81.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.81.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Sound the ram&#8217;s horn at the New Moon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.81.3"><span class="content">and when the moon is full, on the day of our festival;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.81.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.81.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">this is a decree for Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.81.4"><span class="content">an ordinance of the God of Jacob.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.81.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.81.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When God went out against Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.81.5"><span class="content">he established it as a statute for Joseph.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.81.5"><span class="content">I heard an unknown voice say:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.81.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.81.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;I removed the burden from their shoulders;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.81.6"><span class="content">their hands were set free from the basket.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.81.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.81.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">In your distress you called and I rescued you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.81.7"><span class="content">I answered you out of a thundercloud;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.81.7"><span class="content">I tested you at the waters of Meribah.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">81:7 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.81.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.81.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Hear me, my people, and I will warn you&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.81.8"><span class="content">if you would only listen to me, Israel!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.81.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.81.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You shall have no foreign god among you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.81.9"><span class="content">you shall not worship any god other than me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.81.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.81.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.81.10"><span class="content">who brought you up out of Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.81.10"><span class="content">Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.81.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.81.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;But my people would not listen to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.81.11"><span class="content">Israel would not submit to me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.81.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.81.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.81.12"><span class="content">to follow their own devices.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.81.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.81.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;If my people would only listen to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.81.13"><span class="content">if Israel would only follow my ways,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.81.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.81.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">how quickly I would subdue their enemies</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.81.14"><span class="content">and turn my hand against their foes!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.81.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.81.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Those who hate the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> would cringe before him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.81.15"><span class="content">and their punishment would last forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.81.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.81.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But you would be fed with the finest of wheat;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.81.16"><span class="content">with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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