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The Book of Psalms, Chapter 80
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Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a
flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.
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Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength,
and come and save us.
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Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall
be saved.
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O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the
prayer of thy people?
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Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears
to drink in great measure.
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Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies
laugh among themselves.
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Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and
we shall be saved.
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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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The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs
thereof were like the goodly cedars.
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She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the
river.
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Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they
which pass by the way do pluck her?
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The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of
the field doth devour it.
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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.
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It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the
rebuke of thy countenance.
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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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