| Chapter 80 |
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To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim-eduth. Of Asaph. A Psalm.
Give ear, O Keeper of Israel, guiding Joseph like a flock; you who have your seat on the winged ones, let your glory be seen. --
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Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, let your strength be awake from sleep, and come as our salvation. --
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Take us back again, O God; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe. --
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O Lord God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your people? --
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You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure. --
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You make us a cause of war among our neighbours; our haters are laughing at us among themselves. --
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Take us back again, O God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe. --
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You took a vine out of Egypt: driving out the nations, and planting it in their land. --
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You made ready a place for it, so that it might take deep root, and it sent out its branches over all the land. --
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The mountains were covered with its shade, and the great trees with its branches. --
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It sent out its arms to the Sea, and its branches to the River. --
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Why are its walls broken down by your hands, so that all who go by may take its fruit? --
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It is uprooted by the pigs from the woods, the beasts of the field get their food from it. --
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Come back, O God of armies: from heaven let your eyes be turned to this vine, and give your mind to it, --
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Even to the tree which was planted by your right hand, and to the branch which you made strong for yourself. --
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It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face. --
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Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself. --
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So will we not be turned back from you; keep us in life, and we will give praise to your name. --
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Take us back, O Lord God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe. --
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