Chapter 80

  {To the chief Musician. On Shoshannim-Eduth. Of Asaph. A Psalm.} Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that sittest [between] the cherubim, shine forth.  

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  Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy strength, and come to our deliverance.  

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  O God, restore us; and cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.  

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  Jehovah, God of hosts, how long will thine anger smoke against the prayer of thy people?  

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  Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure:  

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  Thou hast made us a strife unto our neighbours, and our enemies mock among themselves.  

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  Restore us, O God of hosts; and cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.  

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  Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt; thou didst cast out the nations, and plant it:  

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  Thou preparedst space before it, and it took deep root, and filled the land;  

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  The mountains were covered with its shadow, and the branches thereof were [like] cedars of ùGod;  

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  It sent out its boughs unto the sea, and its shoots unto the river.  

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  Why hast thou broken down its fences, so that all who pass by the way do pluck it?  

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  The boar out of the forest doth waste it, and the beast of the field doth feed off it.  

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  O God of hosts, return, we beseech thee; look down from the heavens, and behold, and visit this vine;  

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  Even the stock which thy right hand hath planted, and the young plant thou madest strong for thyself.  

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  It is burned with fire, it is cut down; they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.  

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  Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou hast made strong for thyself.  

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  So will we not go back from thee. Revive us, and we will call upon thy name.  

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  Restore us, O Jehovah, God of hosts; cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.  

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