Psalmen 80

1. ¹For the Leader; upon Shoshannim. A testimony. A Psalm of Asaph.
2. ²Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; Thou that art enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth.
3. ³Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up Thy might, and come to save us.
4. ⁴O God, restore us; and cause Thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
5. ⁵O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt Thou be angry against the prayer of Thy people?
6. ⁶Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
7. ⁷Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours; and our enemies mock as they please.
8. ⁸O God of hosts, restore us; and cause Thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
9. ⁹Thou didst pluck up a vine out of Egypt; Thou didst drive out the nations, and didst plant it.
10. ¹⁰Thou didst clear a place before it, and it took deep root, and filled the land.
11. ¹¹The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, and the mighty cedars with the boughs thereof.
12. ¹²She sent out her branches unto the sea, and her shoots unto the River.
13. ¹³Why hast Thou broken down her fences, so that all they that pass by the way do pluck her?
14. ¹⁴The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, that which moveth in the field feedeth on it.
15. ¹⁵O God of hosts, return, we beseech Thee; look from heaven, and behold, and be mindful of this vine,
16. ¹⁶And of the stock which Thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that Thou madest strong for Thyself.
17. ¹⁷It is burned with fire, it is cut down; they perish at the rebuke of Thy countenance.
18. ¹⁸Let Thy hand be upon the man of Thy right hand, upon the son of man whom Thou madest strong for Thyself.
19. ¹⁹So shall we not turn back from Thee; quicken Thou us, and we will call upon Thy name.
20. ²⁰O LORD God of hosts, restore us; cause Thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

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