11 O let the vengeance of thy servants blood that is shed: be
openly shewed upon the heathen in our sight.
12 O let the sorrowful sighing of the prisoners come before thee:
according to the greatness of thy power, preserve thou those that
are appointed to die.
13 And for the blasphemy wherewith our neighbours have blasphemed
thee: reward thou them, O Lord, seven-fold into their bosom.
14 So we, that are thy people, and sheep of thy pasture, shall
give thee thanks for ever: and will alway be shewing forth thy
praise from generation to generation.
PSALM 80. _Qui regis Israel_.
Hear, O thou Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a
sheep: shew thyself also, thou that sittest upon the cherubims.
2 Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses: stir up thy strength,
and come and help us.
3 Turn us again, O God: shew the light of thy countenance, and we
shall be whole.
4 O Lord God of hosts: how long wilt thou be angry with thy people
that prayeth?
5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears: and givest them
plenteousness of tears to drink.
6 Thou hast made us a very strife unto our neighbours: and our
enemies laugh us to scorn.
7 Turn us again, thou God of hosts: shew the light of thy
countenance, and we shall be whole.
8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the
heathen, and planted it.
9 Thou madest 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 goodly cedar-trees.
11 She stretched out her branches unto the sea: and her boughs
unto the river.
12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedge: that all they that go
by pluck off her grapes?
13 The wild boar out of the wood doth root it up: and the wild
beasts of the field devour it.
14 Turn thee again, thou God of hosts, look down from heaven:
behold, and visit this vine;
15 And the place of the vineyard that thy right hand hath planted:
and the branch that thou madest so strong for thyself.
16 It is burnt with fire, and cut down: and they shall perish at
the rebuke of thy countenance.
17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand: and upon the
son of man, whom thou madest so strong for thine own self.
18 And so will not we go back from thee: O let us live, and we
shall call upon thy Name.
19 Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts: shew the light of thy
countenance, and we shall be whole.
PSALM 81. _Exultate Deo_.
Sing we merrily unto God our strength: make a cheerful noise
unto the God of Jacob.
2 Take the psalm, bring hither the tabret: the merry harp with
the lute.
3 Blow up the trumpet in the new-moon: even in the time appointed,
and upon our solemn feast-day.
4 For this was made a statute for Israel: and a law of the God of
Jacob.
5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony: when he came out
of the land of Egypt, and had heard a strange language.
6 I eased his shoulder from the burden: and his hands were
delivered from making the pots.
7 Thou calledst upon me in troubles, and I delivered thee: and
heard thee what time as the storm fell upon thee.