PSALM 79

A Psalm of Asaph.

Of the desolation of Jersalem Psalm 79.1-13

O God, the nations have come into [the land of Youur people] Yor inheritance; Youuur sacred temple have they defiled; they have made Jerusalem heaps of ruins.

^{2 The dead bodies of Your servants they have given as food to the birds of the heavens, the flesh of Youur saints to the beaasts of the earth.
^{3 Their blood they have poured ouut like water round abouut Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.}}

Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!

PSALM 80

To the Chief Musician; [set to the tune of] "Lilies, a Testimony." A Psalm of Asaph.

Of the miseries of the church Psalm 80.1-19

Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, You Who lead Joseph like a flock; You Who sit enthroned uupon the cherubim [of the ark of the covenant], shine forth

^{2 before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh! Stir up Your might, and come to save us!} PSALM 81

To the Chief Musician; set to Philistine lute, or [possibly] a particular Gittite tune. [A Psalm] of Asaph.

An exhortation to a solemn praising of God Psalm 81.1-16

Sing aloud to God our Strength! Shout for joy to the God of Jacob!

^{2 Raise a song, sound the timbrel, the sweet lyre with the harp.
^{3 Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
^{4 For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
^{5 This He ordained in Joseph [the savior] for a testimony when He went out over the land of Egypt. The sppech of One Whom I knew not did I hear [saying],}}}}