Holy Scripture

Psalms 79:1

A church father on this verse
“Over the title of this Psalm, being so short and so simple, I think we need not tarry. But the prophecy which here we read sent before, we know to be evidently fulfilled. For when these things were being sung in the times of King David, nothing of such sort, by the hostility of the Gentiles, as yet had befallen the ci…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — Exposition on Psalm 79

Source: Septuagint

Original

1For the end, for alternate strains, a testimony for Asaph, a Psalm concerning the Assyrian.

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In context

— Psalms 79:1 —

2Attend, O Shepherd of Israel, Who guidest Joseph like a flock; Thou who sittest upon the cherubs, manifest thyself;

3Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, Stir up thy power, And come to deliver us.

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