Psalm 80

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1 (79-1) ^^ To the chief Musician. On the music [gun] Shoshana-Eduf. A Psalm of Asaph. ^^ (79-2) Shepherd of Israel! give ear; driving, as the flock of Joseph, who sits upon the cherubim, shine forth.
2 (79-3) Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.
3 (79-4) O God! Turn us again; thy face to shine, and we shall be saved!
4 (79-5) O Lord God of hosts! how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
5 (79-6) Thou feedest them with the bread of tears, and gave them drink tears in large measure,
6 (79-7) put us in a strife unto our neighbors, and our enemies mock [on us].
7 (79-8) O God of hosts! Turn us again; thy face to shine, and we shall be saved!

8 (79-9) out of Egypt suffered You vine cast out the heathen, and planted it;
9 (79-10) cleared a place for it, and approved its roots, and it filled the land.
10 (79-11) The mountains were covered with its shadow, and the boughs thereof were like cedars of God
eleven (79-12) She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches to the river.
12 (79-13) for which you destroyed its walls, so that it terminated all who pass along the way?
13 (79-14) Forest boar undermines it, and beast of the field doth devour it.
14 (79-15) God of hosts! Let us turn down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
15 (79-16) Protection that Thy right hand planted, and the branch that thou hast confirmed himself.
16 (79-17) It is burned with fire, cut down; the rebuke of Thy countenance shall perish.
17 (79-18) Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed to Himself,
18 (79-19), and we will not fail you; quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
19 (79-20) O Lord God of hosts! Turn us again; thy face to shine, and we shall be saved!

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