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80:1 To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Testimony of Asaph. A Psalm. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou who leadest Joseph like a flock! Thou who art enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth 80:2 before E'phraim and Benjamin and Manas'seh! Stir up thy might, and come to save us! 80:3 Restore us, O God;let thy face shine, that we may be saved! 80:4 O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry with thy people's prayers? 80:5 Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in full measure. 80:6 Thou dost make us the scorn of our neighbors;and our enemies laugh among themselves. 80:7 Restore us, O God of hosts;let thy face shine, that we may be saved! 80:8 Thou didst bring a vine out of Egypt;thou didst drive out the nations and plant it. 80:9 Thou didst clear the ground for it;it took deep root and filled the land. 80:10 The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches; 80:11 it sent out its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the River. 80:12 Why then hast thou broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit? 80:13 The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it. 80:14 Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see;have regard for this vine, 80:15 the stock which thy right hand planted. 80:16 They have burned it with fire, they have cut it down;may they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance! 80:17 But let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, the son of man whom thou hast made strong for thyself! 80:18 Then we will never turn back from thee;give us life, and we will call on thy name! 80:19 Restore us, O LORD God of hosts! let thy face shine, that we may be saved! 80:20