PSALM 80
To the chief Musician upon
Shoshannimeduth, A Psalm of Asaph.
1 Give
ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that
dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth. 2 Before
Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and comea
and save us. 3 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to
shine; and we shall be saved. 4 O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt
thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? 5 Thou feedest
them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies
laugh among themselves. 7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause
thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
8Thou hast
brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. 9
Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root,
and it filled the land. 10 The hills were covered with the shadow
of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodlyb cedars. 11
She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river. 12
Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass
by the way do pluck her? 13 The boar out of the wood doth waste
it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. 14 Return, we
beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this
vine; 15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and
the branch that thou madest strong for thyself. 16 It is
burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy
countenance. 17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand,
upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself. 18
So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and
we shall be saved.
The Holy Bible
King James Version
The Holy Bible : King James Version. 1995. Oak
Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.
a come...:
Heb. come for salvation to us
b
goodly...: Heb. cedars of God
