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