80 - Qui regis Isræl

1  Hear, O Shepherd of Israel, you that lead Joseph like a sheep; *
show yourself also, you that sit upon the cherubim.
2  Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, *
stir up your strength and come to help us.

3  Restore us again, O God; *
show the light of your countenance, and we shall be whole.
4  O Lord God of hosts, *
how long will you be angry with your people that pray?
5  You feed them with the bread of tears *
and give them plenteous tears to drink.
6  You have made us the derision of our neighbors, *
and our enemies laugh us to scorn.
7  Restore us again, O God of hosts; *
show the light of your countenance, and we shall be whole.
8  You have brought a vine out of Egypt; *
you have cast out the nations and planted it.
9  You made 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 mighty cedar trees.
11  It stretched out its branches to the sea *
and its boughs to the river.
12  Why have you broken down its hedge, *
so that all those who go by pluck off its grapes?
13  The wild boar out of the wood roots it up, *
and the wild beasts of the field devour it.
14  Turn again, O God of hosts, look down from heaven; *
behold, and visit this vine,
15  And the place of the vineyard that your right hand
  has planted, *
and the branch that you made so strong for yourself.
16  As for those who burn it with fire and cut it down, *
let them perish at the rebuke of your countenance.
17  Let your hand be upon the man of your right hand *
and upon the son of man, whom you made so strong 
for yourself.

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18  And so we will not turn back from you; *
O let us live, and we shall call upon your Name.
19  Restore us again, O Lord God of hosts; *
show the light of your countenance, and we shall be whole.