Friday, December 18, 2009

Psalm 80 (NRSV)

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Verse ¹Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock! You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth

Verse ²before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh. Stir up your might, and come to save us!

Verse ³Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved.

Verse ⁴O Lord God of hosts, how long will you be angry with your people's prayers?

Verse ⁵You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in full measure.

Verse ⁶You make us the scorn of our neighbors; our enemies laugh among themselves.

Verse ⁷Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved.

Verse ⁸You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.

Verse ⁹You cleared the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land.

Verse ¹⁰The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches;

Verse ¹¹it sent out its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the River.

Verse ¹²Why then have you broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?

Verse ¹³The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it.

Verse ¹⁴Turn again, O God of hosts; look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine,

Verse ¹⁵the stock that your right hand planted.

Verse ¹⁶They have burned it with fire, they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.

Verse ¹⁷But let your hand be upon the one at your right hand, the one whom you made strong for yourself.

Verse ¹⁸Then we will never turn back from you; give us life, and we will call on your name.

Verse ¹⁹Restore us, O Lord God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved.