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Chapter 80 |
1 | Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that
leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims,
shine forth. |
2 | Before
Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and
save us. |
3
| Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall
be saved. |
4 | O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be
angry against the prayer of thy people? |
5 |
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in
great measure. |
6 |
Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among
themselves. |
7 | Turn
us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be
saved. |
8
| Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the
heathen, and planted it. |
9 | Thou preparedst room before it, and didst
1cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
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Song 8:11,
Isa 5:1,
Jer 2:21,
Matt 21:33,
Mark 12:1,
Luke 20:9
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10 | The hills were covered with the shadow of
it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. |
11 | She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and
her branches unto the river. |
12 |
Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass
by the way do pluck her? |
13 |
The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field
doth devour it. |
14 |
Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and
behold, and visit this vine; |
15 | And
the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch 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 will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy
name. |
19 | Turn
us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be
saved. |