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          DASV: Psalm 80    

For the music director, according to Lilies, a covenant, of Asaph, a psalm

1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,
     you who lead Joseph like a flock;
           you who sit enthroned above the cherubim, shine forth.
2 Before Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasseh,
     stir up your might,
           come to save us.
3 Restore us, O God;
     let your face shine,
           and we will be saved.

4 O LORD God of hosts,
     how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
5 You have fed them with the bread of tears,
     and given them tears to drink by the gallon.
6 You make our neighbors quarrel with us;
     our enemies laugh at us.
7 Restore us, O God of hosts;
     let your face shine,
           and we will be saved.

8 You brought a vine out of Egypt;
     you drove out the nations,
           and planted it.
9 You prepared ground for it,
     and it took deep root,
           and filled the land.
10 The mountains were covered with its shadow,
     and its branches were like mighty cedars.
11 It spread its branches to the sea,
     and its shoots to the Euphrates River.
12 Why have you broken down its walls,
     so that all who pass by on the path pluck its fruit?
13 The forest boars ravage it,
     and the wild beasts of the field feed on it.
14 Turn back, O God of hosts;
     look down from heaven and see,
           and tend to this vine,
15 the stock which your right hand planted,
     your son whom you made strong for yourself.
16 It is cut down,
     it is burned with fire;
     they perish at the frown of your face.
17 Let your hand be upon the man of your right hand,
     upon the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.
18 Then we will never turn away from you;
     revive us and we will call on your name.
19 Restore us, O LORD God of hosts;
     let your face shine,
           and we will be saved.

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