Psalm 80 ESV

Psalm 80

Restore Us, O God

1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead ¹Joseph like ²a flock! You who are ³enthroned upon the cherubim, ⁴shine forth.

2 Before ⁵Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, ⁶stir up your might and ⁷come to save us!

3 ⁸Restore us,^a O God; ⁹let your face shine, that we may be saved!

4 O ¹⁰LORD God of hosts, ¹¹how long will you be angry with your people's prayers?

5 You have fed them with ¹²the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in full measure.

6 ¹³You make us an object of contention for our ¹⁴neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves.

7 ¹⁵Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved!

8 You brought ¹⁶a vine out of Egypt; you ¹⁷drove out the nations and planted it.

9 You ¹⁸cleared the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land.

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

11 It sent out its branches to ¹⁹the sea and its shoots to ²⁰the River.^b

12 Why then have you ²¹broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?

13 ²²The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it.

14 Turn again, O God of hosts! ²³Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine,

15 the stock that your right hand planted, and for the son whom you made strong for yourself.

16 They have ²⁴burned it with fire; they have ²⁵cut it down; may they perish at ²⁶the rebuke of your face!

17 But ²⁷let your hand be on the man of your right hand, the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself!

18 Then we shall not turn back from you; ²⁸give us life, and we will call upon your name!

19 ²⁹Restore us, O LORD God of hosts! Let your face shine, that we may be saved!

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