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Psalms 80

The Message Bible MSG

1 Listen, Shepherd, Israel's Shepherd - get all your Joseph sheep together. Throw beams of light from your dazzling throne

2 So Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh can see where they're going. Get out of bed - you've slept long enough! Come on the run before it's too late.

3 God, come back! Smile your blessing smile: That will be our salvation.

4 God, God of the angel armies, how long will you smolder like a sleeping volcano while your people call for fire and brimstone?

5 You put us on a diet of tears, bucket after bucket of salty tears to drink.

6 You make us look ridiculous to our friends; our enemies poke fun day after day.

7 God of the angel armies, come back! Smile your blessing smile: That will be our salvation.

8 Remember how you brought a young vine from Egypt, cleared out the brambles and briers and planted your very own vineyard?

9 You prepared the good earth, you planted her roots deep; the vineyard filled the land.

10 Your vine soared high and shaded the mountains, even dwarfing the giant cedars.

11 Your vine ranged west to the Sea, east to the River.

12 So why do you no longer protect your vine? Trespassers pick its grapes at will;

13 Wild pigs crash through and crush it, and the mice nibble away at what's left.

14 God of the angel armies, turn our way! Take a good look at what's happened and attend to this vine.

15 Care for what you once tenderly planted - the vine you raised from a shoot.

16 And those who dared to set it on fire - give them a look that will kill!

17 Then take the hand of your once-favorite child, the child you raised to adulthood.

18 We will never turn our back on you; breathe life into our lungs so we can shout your name!

19 God, God of the angel armies, come back! Smile your blessing smile: That will be our salvation.

King James Version KJV

1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.

2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.

3 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

4 O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

9 Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.

11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.

12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.

14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;

15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.

16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.

18 So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.

19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.