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Of Asaph. A Psalm.</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you who lead Joseph like a flock!</span></span><br /><span class="text">You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span>before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh.</span></span><br /><span class="text">Stir up your might,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and come to save us!</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Restore us, O God;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">let your face shine, that we may be saved.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> God of hosts,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">how long will you be angry with your people’s prayers?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>You have fed them with the bread of tears,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and given them tears to drink in full measure.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>You make us the scorn<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-17275a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> of our neighbors;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">our enemies laugh among themselves.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Restore us, O God of hosts;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">let your face shine, that we may be saved.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>You brought a vine out of Egypt;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you drove out the nations and planted it.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>You cleared the ground for it;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">it took deep root and filled the land.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>The mountains were covered with its shade,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the mighty cedars with its branches;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>it sent out its branches to the sea,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and its shoots to the River.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Why then have you broken down its walls,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>The boar from the forest ravages it,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and all that move in the field feed on it.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Turn again, O God of hosts;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">look down from heaven, and see;</span></span><br /><span class="text">have regard for this vine,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span>the stock that your right hand planted.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-17284b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>They have burned it with fire, they have cut it down;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-17285c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">may they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>But let your hand be upon the one at your right hand,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the one whom you made strong for yourself.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Then we will never turn back from you;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">give us life, and we will call on your name.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>Restore us, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> God of hosts;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">let your face shine, that we may be saved.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 80:6">Psalm 80:6</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Syr: Heb <i>strife</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 80:15">Psalm 80:15</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb adds from verse 17 <i>and upon the one whom you made strong for yourself</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 80:16">Psalm 80:16</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Heb <i>it is cut down</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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