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Hear us,
Shepherd of Israel,you who lead
Joseph like a flock,you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.
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Before
Ephraim and
Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might!Come to save us!
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Turn us again, God.Cause your face to shine,and we will be saved. +
4
The LORD God of Armies,How long will you be angry against the
prayer of your people?
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You have fed them with the
bread of tears,and given them tears to
drink in large measure.
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You make us a source of contention to our neighbors.Our enemies laugh among themselves. +
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Turn us again, God of Armies.Cause your face to shine,and we will be saved.
8
You brought a vine out of Egypt.You drove out the nations, and planted it. +
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You cleared the ground for it.It took deep root, and filled the land.
10
The mountains were covered with its shadow.Its boughs were like God's cedars.
11
It sent out its branches to the sea,Its shoots to the River.
12
Why have you broken down its walls,so that all those who pass by the way pluck it? +
13
The boar out of the wood ravages it.The wild animals of the
field feed on it.
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Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies.Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine, +
15
the stock which your right hand planted,the
branch that you made strong for yourself.
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It's burned with fire.It's cut down.They perish at your rebuke. +
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Let your hand be on the man of your right hand,on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself. +
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So we will not turn away from you.Revive us, and we will call on your name. +
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Turn us again, the LORD God of Armies.Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved. +
Ps 80:1-19. Shoshannim--"Lilies" (see on Ps 45:1, title). Eduth--Testimony, referring to the topic as a testimony of God to His people (compare Ps 19:7). This Psalm probably relates to the captivity of the ten tribes, as the former to that of Judah. Its complaint is aggravated by the contrast of former prosperity, and the prayer for relief occurs as a refrain through the Psalm.
1, 2. Joseph--for Ephraim (1Ch 7:20-29; Ps 78:67; Re 7:8), for Israel.
Shepherd--(Compare Ge 49:24).
leadest, &c.-- (Ps 77:20).
dwellest . . . cherubim-- (Ex 25:20); the place of God's visible glory, whence He communed with the people (Heb 9:5).
shine forth--appear (Ps 50:2; 94:1).