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Psalm 80 In Hebrew texts 80:1-19 is numbered 80:2-20. ¹ For the director of music. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” Of Asaph. A psalm. Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. You who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth

² before Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasseh. Awaken your might; come and save us.

³ Restore us, O God; make your face shine on us, that we may be saved.

⁴ How long, LORD God Almighty, will your anger smolder against the prayers of your people?

⁵ You have fed them with the bread of tears; you have made them drink tears by the bowlful.

⁶ You have made us an object of derision Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text contention to our neighbors, and our enemies mock us.

⁷ Restore us, God Almighty; make your face shine on us, that we may be saved.

⁸ You transplanted a vine from Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.

⁹ You cleared the ground for it, and it took root and filled the land.

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

¹¹ Its branches reached as far as the Sea, Probably the Mediterranean its shoots as far as the River. That is, the Euphrates

¹² Why have you broken down its walls so that all who pass by pick its grapes?

¹³ Boars from the forest ravage it, and insects from the fields feed on it.

¹⁴ Return to us, God Almighty! Look down from heaven and see! Watch over this vine,

¹⁵ the root your right hand has planted, the son Or branch you have raised up for yourself.

¹⁶ Your vine is cut down, it is burned with fire; at your rebuke your people perish.

¹⁷ Let your hand rest on the man at your right hand, the son of man you have raised up for yourself.

¹⁸ Then we will not turn away from you; revive us, and we will call on your name. ¹⁹ Restore us, LORD God Almighty; make your face shine on us, that we may be saved.