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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. |
3
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Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and
we shall be saved. |
4
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O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against
the prayer of thy people? |
5
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Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest
them tears to drink in great measure. |
6
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Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our
enemies laugh among themselves. |
7
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Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to
shine; and we shall be saved. |
8
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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. |
10
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The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the
boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. |
11
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She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches
unto the river. |
12
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Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all
they which pass by the way do pluck her? |
13
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The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild
beast of the field doth devour it. |
14
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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. |
16
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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. |
