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

¹Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; Thou that sittest [above] the cherubim, shine forth.+ ²Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy might, And come to save us.+ ³Turn us again, O God; And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.+ ⁴O Jehovah God of hosts, How long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?+ ⁵Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure.+ ⁶Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors; And our enemies laugh among themselves.+ ⁷Turn us again, O God of hosts; And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.+ ⁸Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt: Thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst it.+ ⁹Thou preparedst [room] before it, And it took deep root, and filled the land.+ ¹⁰The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were [like] cedars of God.+ ¹¹It sent out its branches unto the sea, And its shoots unto the River.+ ¹²Why hast thou broken down its walls, So that all they that pass by the way do pluck it?+ ¹³The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, And the wild beasts of the field feed on it.+ ¹⁴Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: Look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine,+ ¹⁵And the stock which thy right hand planted, And the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.+ ¹⁶It is burned with fire, it is cut down: They perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.+ ¹⁷Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, Upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.+ ¹⁸So shall we not go back from thee: Quicken thou us, and we will call upon thy name.+ ¹⁹Turn us again, O Jehovah God of hosts; Cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.+

Hear Us, O Shepherd of Israel

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