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How long will Thy jealousy burn like fire?

⁶Pour out Thy wrath upon the nations that know Thee not,

And upon the kingdoms that call not upon Thy name.

⁷For they have devoured Jacob,

And laid waste his habitation.

⁸Remember not against us the iniquities of our forefathers;

Let Thy compassions speedily come to meet us;

For we are brought very low.

 

⁹Help us, O God of our salvation, for the sake of the glory of Thy name;

And deliver us, and forgive our sins, for Thy name's sake.

¹⁰Wherefore should the nations say: 'Where is their God?'

Let the avenging of Thy servants' blood that is shed

Be made known among the nations in our sight. ¹¹Let the groaning of the prisoner come before Thee;

According to the greatness of Thy power set free those that are appointed to death;

¹²And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom

Their reproach, wherewith they have reproached Thee, O Lord.

¹³So we that are Thy people and the flock of Thy pasture

Will give Thee thanks for ever;

We will tell of Thy praise to all generations.

80 For the Leader; upon Shoshannim. A testimony. A Psalm of Asaph.

²Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,

Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock;

Thou that art enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth.

³Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up Thy might,

And come to save us.

⁴O God, restore us;

And cause Thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

 

⁵O Lord God of hosts,

How long wilt Thou be angry against the prayer of Thy people?

⁶Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears,

And given them tears to drink in large measure.

⁷Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours;

And our enemies mock as they please.

⁸O God of hosts, restore us;

And cause Thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

 

⁹Thou didst pluck up a vine out of Egypt;

Thou didst drive out the nations, and didst plant it.

¹⁰Thou didst clear a place before it,

And it took deep root, and filled the land.

¹¹The mountains were covered with the shadow of it,

And the mighty cedars with the boughs thereof.

¹²She sent out her branches unto the sea,

And her shoots unto the River.

¹³Why hast Thou broken down her fences,

So that all they that pass by the way do pluck her?

¹⁴The boar out of the wood doth ravage it,

That which moveth in the field feedeth on it.

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