Psalmen 80

1. ¹To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim Eduth, A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubim, shine forth.
2. ²Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.
3. ³Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
4. ⁴O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
5. ⁵Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
6. ⁶Thou makest us a strife to our neighbors: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
7. ⁷Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
8. ⁸Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
9. ⁹Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
10. ¹⁰The hills were covered with the shade of it, and its boughs were like the goodly cedars.
11. ¹¹She sent out her boughs to the sea, and her branches to the river.
12. ¹²Why hast thou then broke down her hedges, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck her?
13. ¹³The boar from the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
14. ¹⁴Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
15. ¹⁵And the vineyard which thy right hand planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
16. ¹⁶It is burnt with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
17. ¹⁷Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
18. ¹⁸So will we not go back from thee: revive us, and we will call upon thy name.
19. ¹⁹Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

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