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Ps 79:20

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Ps 79:20 · Douay-Rheims
“O Lord God of hosts, convert us: and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.”
Scholastic c. 1100 – 1500
1105
A.D.
Rashi Jewish
1040–1105
“O Lord God of Hosts Here are mentioned three holy names, yet in the middle case two names and in the first case one name. All this is according to the intensity of the exile, the trouble, and the redemption (which shall surely come).”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.