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Psalm 80. Qui regis Israel.
HEAR, O thou Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like
a flock; * show thyself also, thou that sittest upon the Cherubim.
2 Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, * stir up thy strength,
and come and help us.
3 Turn us again, O God; * show the light of thy countenance,
and we shall be whole.
4 O LORD God of hosts, * how long wilt thou be angry with thy
people that prayeth?
5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears, * and givest them
plenteousness of tears to drink.
6 Thou hast made us a very strife unto our neighbours, * and
our enemies laugh us to scorn.
7 Turn us again, thou God of hosts; * show the light of thy countenance,
and we shall be whole.
8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt; * thou hast cast out
the heathen, and planted it.
9 Thou madest room for it; * and when it had taken root, it filled
the land.
10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, * and the boughs
thereof were like the goodly cedar-trees.
11 She stretched out her branches unto the sea, * and her boughs
unto the River.
12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedge, * that all they
that go by pluck off her grapes?
13 The wild boar out of the wood doth root it up, * and the wild
beasts of the field devour it.
14 Turn thee again, thou God of hosts, look down from heaven,
* behold, and visit this vine;
15 And the place of the vineyard that thy right hand hath planted,
* and the branch that thou madest so strong for thyself.
16 It is burnt with fire, and cut down; * and they shall perish
at the rebuke of thy countenance.
17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, * and upon
the son of man, whom thou madest so strong for thine own self.
18 And so will not we go back from thee: * O let us live, and
we shall call upon thy Name.
19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts; * show the light of thy
countenance, and we shall be whole.
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