| 80 | Psalms | ||
| Prayer for National Deliverance. Psalm 80(v79) | |||
| 1 | Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock! You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth | ||
| 2 | before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh! Stir up your might, and come to save us! | ||
| 3 | Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved! | ||
| 4 | O Yahweh God of hosts, how long will you be angry with your people's prayers? | ||
| 5 | You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in full measure. | ||
| 6 | You make us the scorn of our neighbours; and our enemies laugh among themselves. | ||
| 7 | Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! | ||
| 8 | You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it. | ||
| 9 | You cleared the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land. | ||
| 10 | The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches; | ||
| 11 | it sent out its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the River. | ||
| 12 | Why then have you broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit? | ||
| 13 | The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it. | ||
| 14 | Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine, | ||
| 15 | the stock which your right hand planted. | ||
| 16 | They have burned it with fire, they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of your countenance! | ||
| 17 | But let your hand be upon the man of your right hand, the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself! | ||
| 18 | Then we will never turn back from you; give us life, and we will call on your name! | ||
| 19 | Restore us, O Yahweh God of hosts! let your face shine, that we may be saved! | ||
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