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1 For the Leader; upon Shoshannim. A testimony. A Psalm of Asaph. (80:2)
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2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up Thy might, and come to save us.
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3 O God, restore us; and cause Thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
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4 O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt Thou be angry against the prayer of Thy people?
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5 Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
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6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours; and our enemies mock as they please.
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7 O God of hosts, restore us; and cause Thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
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8 Thou didst pluck up a vine out of Egypt; Thou didst drive out the nations, and didst plant it.
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9 Thou didst clear a place before it, and it took deep root, and filled the land.
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10 The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, and the mighty cedars with the boughs thereof.
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11 She sent out her branches unto the sea, and her shoots unto the River.
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12 Why hast Thou broken down her fences, so that all they that pass by the way do pluck her?
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13 The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, that which moveth in the field feedeth on it.
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14 O God of hosts, return, we beseech Thee; look from heaven, and behold, and be mindful of this vine,
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15 And of the stock which Thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that Thou madest strong for Thyself.
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16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down; they perish at the rebuke of Thy countenance.
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17 Let Thy hand be upon the man of Thy right hand, upon the son of man whom Thou madest strong for Thyself.
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18 So shall we not turn back from Thee; quicken Thou us, and we will call upon Thy name.
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19 O LORD God of hosts, restore us; cause Thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
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