Testaments

Psalms - Chapter 80 - Bible Basic English

  1. To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim-eduth. Of Asaph. A Psalm.
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  4. \Give ear, O Keeper of Israel, guiding Joseph like a flock; you who have your seat on the winged ones, let your glory be seen.
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  7. \Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, let your strength be awake from sleep, and come as our salvation.
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  10. \Take us back again, O God; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.
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  13. \O Lord God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your people?
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  16. \You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.
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  19. \You make us a cause of war among our neighbours; our haters are laughing at us among themselves.
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  22. \Take us back again, O God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.
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  25. \You took a vine out of Egypt: driving out the nations, and planting it in their land.
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  28. \You made ready a place for it, so that it might take deep root, and it sent out its branches over all the land.
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  31. \The mountains were covered with its shade, and the great trees with its branches.
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  34. \It sent out its arms to the Sea, and its branches to the River.
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  37. \Why are its walls broken down by your hands, so that all who go by may take its fruit?
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  40. \It is uprooted by the pigs from the woods, the beasts of the field get their food from it.
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  43. \Come back, O God of armies: from heaven let your eyes be turned to this vine, and give your mind to it,
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  46. \Even to the tree which was planted by your right hand, and to the branch which you made strong for yourself.
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  49. \It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face.
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  52. \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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  55. \So will we not be turned back from you; keep us in life, and we will give praise to your name.
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  58. \Take us back, O Lord God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.