Psalms 80 · Clearspring

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” A Psalm of Asaph.

Hear Us, O Shepherd of Israel

¹Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.+ ²Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us!+ ³Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.+ ⁴Yahweh God of Armies, How long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?+ ⁵You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.+ ⁶You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.+ ⁷Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.+ ⁸You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.+ ⁹You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land.+ ¹⁰The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God’s cedars.+ ¹¹It sent out its branches to the sea, Its shoots to the River.+ ¹²Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?+ ¹³The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.+ ¹⁴Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,+ ¹⁵the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself.+ ¹⁶It’s burned with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke.+ ¹⁷Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.+ ¹⁸So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.+ ¹⁹Turn us again, Yahweh God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.+

Hear Us, O Shepherd of Israel

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