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Chapter 80 |
| 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 come 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?
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| 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. |
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7 | Turn us again, O God of
hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. |
| 8 | Thou hast
brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted
it. |
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Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep
root, and it filled the land. |
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10 | The hills were covered with the shadow
of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly 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? |
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13 | The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the
wild beast of the field doth devour it. |
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14 | Return, we beseech thee, O
God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
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| 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. |
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18 | So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and
we will call upon thy name. |
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19 | Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts,
cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. |
