Psalm 79 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ Remember not our former iniquities: let thy mercies speedily prevent us, for we are become exceeding poor.

² Help us, O God, our saviour: and for the glory of thy name, O Lord, deliver us: and forgive us our sins for thy name's sake:

³ 0 Lest they should say among the Gentiles: Where is their God? And let him be made known among the nations before our eyes, By the revenging the blood of thy servants, which hath been shed:

⁴ 1 let the sighing of the prisoners come in before thee. According to the greatness of thy arm, take possession of the children of them that have been put to death.

⁵ 2 And render to our neighbours sevenfold in their bosom: the reproach wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

⁶ 3 But we thy people, and the sheep of thy pasture, will give thanks to thee for ever. We will shew forth thy praise, unto generation and generation.

⁷ Unto the end, for them that shall he changed, a testimony for Asaph, a psalm. Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep. Thou that sittest upon the cherubims, shine forth

⁸ before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses. Stir up thy might, and come to save us.

⁹ Convert us, O God: and shew us thy face, and we shall be saved.

¹⁰ O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy servant?

¹¹ How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: and give us for our drink tears in measure?

¹² Thou hast made us to be a contradiction to our neighbours: and our enemies have scoffed at us.

¹³ O God of hosts, convert us: and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.