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For the Chief Musician, set to Shoshanim Eduth.. A Psalm of Asaph.
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80:1 |
Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, |
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Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock;
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Thou that sittest above the cherubim, shine forth.
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80:2 |
Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy might, |
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And come to save us.
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80:3 |
Turn us again, O God; |
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And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
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80:4 |
O Jehovah God of hosts, |
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How long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
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80:5 |
Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, |
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And given them tears to drink in large measure.
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80:6 |
Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors; |
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And our enemies laugh among themselves.
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80:7 |
Turn us again, O God of hosts; |
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And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
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80:8 |
Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt: |
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Thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst it.
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80:9 |
Thou preparedst room before it, |
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And it took deep root, and filled the land.
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80:10 |
The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, |
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And the boughs thereof were like cedars of God.
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80:11 |
It sent out its branches unto the sea, |
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And its shoots unto the River.
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80:12 |
Why hast thou broken down its walls, |
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So that all they that pass by the way do pluck it?
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80:13 |
The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, |
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And the wild beasts of the field feed on it.
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80:14 |
Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: |
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Look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine,
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80:15 |
And the stock which thy right hand planted, |
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And the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
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80:16 |
It is burned with fire, it is cut down: |
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They perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
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80:17 |
Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, |
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Upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
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80:18 |
So shall we not go back from thee: |
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Quicken thou us, and we will call upon thy name.
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80:19 |
Turn us again, O Jehovah God of hosts; |
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Cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
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