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 dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.+ ²Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.+ ³Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.+ ⁴O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?+ ⁵Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.+ ⁶Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: 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 hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.+ ⁹Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.+ ¹⁰The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.+ ¹¹She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.+ ¹²Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?+ ¹³The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.+ ¹⁴Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;+ ¹⁵And the vineyard which thy right hand hath 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 will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.+ ¹⁹Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.+

Hear Us, O Shepherd of Israel

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