Psalm 80

Restore Us, O God

1Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,

you who lead Joseph like a flock.

You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth.

2Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh,[#Num. 2:18-24]

stir up your might

and come to save us!

3Restore us, O God;[#19; Ps. 60:1; 85:4; Lam. 5:21; #80:3 Or Turn us again ; also verses 7, 19]

let your face shine, that we may be saved!

4O Lord God of hosts,[#Ps. 59:5]

how long will you be angry with your people’s prayers?

5You have fed them with the bread of tears[#Ps. 42:3; 102:9; 1 Kgs. 22:27; Isa. 30:20]

and given them tears to drink in full measure.

6You make us an object of contention for our neighbors,[#Ps. 44:13; #Ps. 44:13]

and our enemies laugh among themselves.

7Restore us, O God of hosts;[#3]

let your face shine, that we may be saved!

8You brought a vine out of Egypt;[#Isa. 5:1; 27:2; Jer. 2:21; 12:10; Ezek. 17:6; Matt. 21:33; Mark 12:1; Luke 20:9]

you drove out the nations and planted it.

9You cleared the ground for it;[#Josh. 24:12]

it took deep root and filled the land.

10The mountains were covered with its shade,

the mighty cedars with its branches.

11It sent out its branches to the sea[#Ps. 72:8]

and its shoots to the River.

12Why then have you broken down its walls,[#Ps. 89:40; Isa. 5:5]

so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?

13The boar from the forest ravages it,[#Jer. 5:6]

and all that move in the field feed on it.

14Turn again, O God of hosts!

Look down from heaven, and see;

have regard for this vine,

15the stock that your right hand planted,

and for the son whom you made strong for yourself.

16They have burned it with fire; they have cut it down;[#Isa. 33:12; #Isa. 33:12]

may they perish at the rebuke of your face!

17But let your hand be on the man of your right hand,[#Ps. 89:21]

the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself!

18Then we shall not turn back from you;

give us life, and we will call upon your name!

19Restore us, O Lord God of hosts![#3, 7]

Let your face shine, that we may be saved!

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