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| The Book of Psalms. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
| Book III |
| LXXX |
| God Implored to Rescue His People from Their Calamities |
| For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim 1 Eduth. A Psalm of Asaph. |
| [1] | GIVE ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; Thou that sittest 2 above the cherubim, shine forth. |
| [2] | Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy might, And come to save us. |
| [3] | Turn us again, O God; And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved. |
| [4] | O Jehovah God of hosts, How long wilt 3 thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? |
| [5] | Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure. |
| [6] | Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors; And our enemies laugh among themselves. |
| [7] | Turn 4 us again, O God of hosts; And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved. |
| [8] | Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt: Thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst it. |
| [9] | Thou preparedst room before it, And it took deep root, and filled the land. |
| [10] | The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, And the 5 boughs thereof were like cedars 6 of God. |
| [11] | It sent out its branches unto the sea, And its shoots unto the River. |
| [12] | Why hast thou broken down its walls, So that all they that pass by the way do pluck it? |
| [13] | The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, And the wild beasts of the field feed on it. |
| [14] | Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: Look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine, |
| [15] | And the 7 stock which thy right hand planted, And the branch 8 that thou madest strong for thyself. |
| [16] | It is burned with fire, it is cut down: They perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. |
| [17] | Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, Upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself. |
| [18] | So shall we not go back from thee: Quicken thou us, and we will call upon thy name. |
| [19] | Turn us again, O Jehovah God of hosts; Cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved. |
| Note 1. That is, Lilies, a testimony. [back] |
| Note 2. Or, art enthroned. [back] |
| Note 3. Heb. wilt thou smoke. See Ps. 74. 1. [back] |
| Note 4. Or, Restore. [back] |
| Note 5. Or, the cedars of God with the boughs thereof. [back] |
| Note 6. Or, goodly cedars. [back] |
| Note 7. Or, protect (or, maintain) that which &c. [back] |
| Note 8. Heb. son. [back] |
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