Chapter 80

  For the Chief Musician, set to Shoshanim Eduth.. A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; Thou that sittest [above] the cherubim, shine forth.  

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  Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy might, And come to save us.  

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

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  O Jehovah God of hosts, How long wilt thou be angry 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 makest us a strife unto our neighbors; And our enemies laugh among themselves.  

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  Turn us again, 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 drive out the nations, and plantedst it.  

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  Thou preparedst [room] before it, And it took deep root, and filled the land.  

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  The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were [like] cedars of God.  

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  It sent out its branches unto the sea, And its shoots unto the River.  

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  Why hast thou broken down its walls, So that all they that pass by the way do pluck it?  

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  The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, And the wild beasts of the field feed on it.  

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  Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: Look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine,  

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  And the stock which thy right hand planted, And the branch that 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 madest strong for thyself.  

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  So shall we not go back from thee: Quicken thou us, and we will call upon thy name.  

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  Turn us again, O Jehovah God of hosts; Cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.   

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