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