Psalms 79

• 1. O God, pagan nations have conquered your land, your special possession. They have defiled your holy Temple and made Jerusalem a heap of ruins.
• 2. They have left the bodies of your servants as food for the birds of heaven. The flesh of your godly ones has become food for the wild animals.
• 3. Blood has flowed like water all around Jerusalem; no one is left to bury the dead.
• 4. We are mocked by our neighbors, an object of scorn and derision to those around us.
• 5. O LORD, how long will you be angry with us? Forever? How long will your jealousy burn like fire?
• 6. Pour out your wrath on the nations that refuse to recognize you--on kingdoms that do not call upon your name.
• 7. For they have devoured your people Israel, making the land a desolate wilderness.
• 8. Oh, do not hold us guilty for our former sins! Let your tenderhearted mercies quickly meet our needs, for we are brought low to the dust.
• 9. Help us, O God of our salvation! Help us for the honor of your name. Oh, save us and forgive our sins for the sake of your name.
• 10. Why should pagan nations be allowed to scoff, asking, "Where is their God?" Show us your vengeance against the nations, for they have spilled the blood of your servants.
• 11. Listen to the moaning of the prisoners. Demonstrate your great power by saving those condemned to die.
• 12. O Lord, take sevenfold vengeance on our neighbors for the scorn they have hurled at you.
• 13. Then we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will thank you forever and ever, praising your greatness from generation to generation.

Psalms 80

• 1. Please listen, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Israel like a flock. O God, enthroned above the cherubim, display your radiant glory
• 2. to Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Show us your mighty power. Come to rescue us!
• 3. Turn us again to yourself, O God. Make your face shine down upon us. Only then will we be saved.
• 4. O LORD God Almighty, how long will you be angry and reject our prayers?
• 5. You have fed us with sorrow and made us drink tears by the bucketful.
• 6. You have made us the scorn of neighboring nations. Our enemies treat us as a joke.
• 7. Turn us again to yourself, O God Almighty. Make your face shine down upon us. Only then will we be saved.
• 8. You brought us from Egypt as though we were a tender vine; you drove away the pagan nations and transplanted us into your land.
• 9. You cleared the ground for us, and we took root and filled the land.
• 10. The mountains were covered with our shade; the mighty cedars were covered with our branches.
• 11. We spread our branches west to the Mediterranean Sea, our limbs east to the Euphrates River.
• 12. But now, why have you broken down our walls so that all who pass may steal our fruit?
• 13. The boar from the forest devours us, and the wild animals feed on us.
• 14. Come back, we beg you, O God Almighty. Look down from heaven and see our plight. Watch over and care for this vine
• 15. that you yourself have planted, this son you have raised for yourself.
• 16. For we are chopped up and burned by our enemies. May they perish at the sight of your frown.
• 17. Strengthen the man you love, the son of your choice.
• 18. Then we will never forsake you again. Revive us so we can call on your name once more.
• 19. Turn us again to yourself, O LORD God Almighty. Make your face shine down upon us. Only then will we be saved.

Psalms 81

• 1. Sing praises to God, our strength. Sing to the God of Israel.
• 2. Sing! Beat the tambourine. Play the sweet lyre and the harp.
• 3. Sound the trumpet for a sacred feast when the moon is new, when the moon is full.
• 4. For this is required by the laws of Israel; it is a law of the God of Jacob.
• 5. He made it a decree for Israel when he attacked Egypt to set us free. I heard an unknown voice that said,
• 6. "Now I will relieve your shoulder of its burden; I will free your hands from their heavy tasks.
• 7. You cried to me in trouble, and I saved you; I answered out of the thundercloud. I tested your faith at Meribah, when you complained that there was no water.
• 8. "Listen to me, O my people, while I give you stern warnings. O Israel, if you would only listen!
• 9. You must never have a foreign god; you must not bow down before a false god.
• 10. For it was I, the LORD your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it with good things.
• 11. "But no, my people wouldn't listen. Israel did not want me around.
• 12. So I let them follow their blind and stubborn way, living according to their own desires.
• 13. But oh, that my people would listen to me! Oh, that Israel would follow me, walking in my paths!
• 14. How quickly I would then subdue their enemies! How soon my hands would be upon their foes!
• 15. Those who hate the LORD would cringe before him; their desolation would last forever.
• 16. But I would feed you with the best of foods. I would satisfy you with wild honey from the rock."

New Living Translation: 193 of 324 days.