| 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? |
| 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. |
|
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. |
| 9 | Thou
preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled
the land. |
| 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? |
| 13 | The boar out of the wood doth waste
it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. |
|
14 | Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look
down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; |
|
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. |
| 18 | So will not we go back from thee:
quicken us, and we will call upon thy name. |
| 19 | Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to
shine; and we shall be saved. |
