1.9 KiB
Psalm 80
- Please listen, O Shepherd of Israel,
you who lead Joseph's descendants like a flock.
O God, enthroned above the cherubim,
display your radiant glory
- to Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh.
Show us your mighty power.
Come to rescue us!
- Turn us again to yourself, O God.
Make your face shine down upon us.
Only then will we be saved.
- O LORD God of Heaven's Armies,
how long will you be angry with our prayers?
- You have fed us with sorrow
and made us drink tears by the bucketful.
- You have made us the scorn of neighboring nations.
Our enemies treat us as a joke.
- Turn us again to yourself, O God of Heaven's Armies.
Make your face shine down upon us.
Only then will we be saved.
- You brought us from Egypt like a grapevine;
you drove away the pagan nations and transplanted us into your land.
- You cleared the ground for us,
and we took root and filled the land.
- Our shade covered the mountains;
our branches covered the mighty cedars.
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We spread our branches west to the Mediterranean Sea; our shoots spread east to the Euphrates River.
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But now, why have you broken down our walls
so that all who pass by may steal our fruit?
- The wild boar from the forest devours it,
and the wild animals feed on it.
- Come back, we beg you, O God of Heaven's Armies.
Look down from heaven and see our plight.
Take care of this grapevine
- that you yourself have planted,
this son you have raised for yourself.
- For we are chopped up and burned by our enemies.
May they perish at the sight of your frown.
- Strengthen the man you love,
the son of your choice.
- Then we will never abandon you again.
Revive us so we can call on your name once more.
- Turn us again to yourself, O LORD God of Heaven's Armies.
Make your face shine down upon us.
Only then will we be saved.