Holy Scripture
Psalms 79:3
A church father on this verse
“"They have defiled Your holy Temple, they have made Jerusalem for a keeping of apples." "They have made the dead bodies of Your servants morsels for the fowls of heaven, the fleshes of Your saints for the beasts of the earth" [Psalm 79:2]. "They have poured forth their blood like water in the circuit of Jerusalem, and…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
3Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, Stir up thy power, And come to deliver us.
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In context
1For the end, for alternate strains, a testimony for Asaph, a Psalm concerning the Assyrian.
2Attend, O Shepherd of Israel, Who guidest Joseph like a flock; Thou who sittest upon the cherubs, manifest thyself;
— Psalms 79:3 —
4Turn us, O God, And cause thy face to shine; and we shall be delivered.
5O Lord God of hosts, How long art thou angry with the prayer of thy servant?