Psalm 80

1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you that lead Joseph like a flock; you that dwell between the cherubim, shine forth.
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2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up your strength, and come and save us.
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3 Turn us again, O God, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved.
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4 O LORD God of hosts, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
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5 You feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink in great measure.
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6 You make us a strife to our neighbors: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
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7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved.
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8 You have brought a vine out of Egypt: you have cast out the heathen, and planted it.
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9 You prepared room before it, and did cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
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10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
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11 She sent out her boughs to the sea, and her branches to the river.
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12 Why have you then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
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13 The boar out of the wood does waste it, and the wild beast of the field does devour it.
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14 Return, we beseech you, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
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15 And the vineyard which your right hand has planted, and the branch that you made strong for yourself.
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16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.
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17 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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18 So will not we go back from you: quicken us, and we will call on your name.
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19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved.
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