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Psalm 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.

New Living Translation NLT

1 Please listen, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph’s descendants like a flock. O God, enthroned above the cherubim, display your radiant glory

2 to Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Show us your mighty power. Come to rescue us!

3 Turn us again to yourself, O God. Make your face shine down upon us. Only then will we be saved.

4 O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, how long will you be angry with our prayers?

5 You have fed us with sorrow and made us drink tears by the bucketful.

6 You have made us the scorn of neighboring nations. Our enemies treat us as a joke.

7 Turn us again to yourself, O God of Heaven’s Armies. Make your face shine down upon us. Only then will we be saved.

8 You brought us from Egypt like a grapevine; you drove away the pagan nations and transplanted us into your land.

9 You cleared the ground for us, and we took root and filled the land.

10 Our shade covered the mountains; our branches covered the mighty cedars.

11 We spread our branches west to the Mediterranean Sea; our shoots spread east to the Euphrates River.

12 But now, why have you broken down our walls so that all who pass by may steal our fruit?

13 The wild boar from the forest devours it, and the wild animals feed on it.

14 Come back, we beg you, O God of Heaven’s Armies. Look down from heaven and see our plight. Take care of this grapevine

15 that you yourself have planted, this son you have raised for yourself.

16 For we are chopped up and burned by our enemies. May they perish at the sight of your frown.

17 Strengthen the man you love, the son of your choice.

18 Then we will never abandon you again. Revive us so we can call on your name once more.

19 Turn us again to yourself, O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies. Make your face shine down upon us. Only then will we be saved.