Chapter 80

To the leader: on Lilies, a Covenant. Of Asaph. A Psalm. 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!

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Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved.

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O LORD 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 ^a Syr Jerome: Heb my spirit searches of our neighbors; our enemies laugh among themselves.

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Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved.

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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.

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Turn again, O God of hosts; look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine, ¹⁵ the stock that your right hand planted. ^b Heb armed with shooting ¹⁶ They have burned it with fire, they have cut it down; ^c Syr: Heb strife may they perish at the rebuke of your countenance. ¹⁷ But let your hand be upon the one at your right hand, the one whom you made strong for yourself. ¹⁸ Then we will never turn back from you; give us life, and we will call on your name.

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Restore us, O LORD God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved.