Old Testament

Psalms 80:6-13 Metrical Psalms 1650 (MP1650)

6. Thou makest us a strife untoour neighbours round about;Our enemies among themselvesat us do laugh and flout.

7. Turn us again, O God of hosts,and upon us vouchsafeTo make thy countenance to shine,and so we shall be safe.

8. A vine from Egypt brought thou hast,by thine outstretched hand;And thou the heathen out didst cast,to plant it in their land.

9. Before it thou a room didst make,where it might grow and stand;Thou causedst it deep root to take,and it did fill the land.

10. The mountains vail'd were with its shade,as with a covering;Like goodly cedars were the boughswhich out from it did spring.

11. Upon the one hand to the seaher boughs she did out send;On th' other side unto the floodher branches did extend.

12. Why hast thou then thus broken down,and ta'en her hedge away?So that all passengers do pluck,and make of her a prey.

13. The boar who from the forest comesdoth waste it at his pleasure;The wild beast of the field alsodevours it out of measure.

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