Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
Psalm 80
A Prayer for Restoration
For the choir director: according to “The Lilies.”(A) A testimony of Asaph.(B) A psalm.
1 Listen, Shepherd of Israel,
who leads Joseph like a flock;(C)
you who sit enthroned between the cherubim,(D)
shine(E) 2 on Ephraim,
Benjamin, and Manasseh.(F)
Rally your power and come to save us.(G)
3 Restore us, God;
make your face shine on us,(H)
so that we may be saved.(I)
4 Lord God of Armies,
how long will you be angry
with your people’s prayers?(J)
5 You fed them the bread of tears
and gave them a full measure[a]
of tears to drink.(K)
6 You put us at odds with our neighbors;
our enemies mock us.(L)
7 Restore us, God of Armies;
make your face shine on us, so that we may be saved.(M)
A Song of Praise
10 Sing a new song to the Lord;(A)
sing his praise from the ends of the earth,
you who go down to the sea with all that fills it,(B)
you coasts and islands with your[a] inhabitants.
11 Let the desert and its cities shout,
the settlements where Kedar dwells cry aloud.(C)
Let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy;(D)
let them cry out from the mountaintops.
12 Let them give glory to the Lord
and declare his praise in the coasts and islands.
13 The Lord advances like a warrior;
he stirs up his zeal like a soldier.(E)
He shouts, he roars aloud,
he prevails over his enemies.
14 “I have kept silent from ages past;
I have been quiet and restrained myself.(F)
But now, I will groan like a woman in labor,(G)
gasping breathlessly.
15 I will lay waste mountains and hills
and dry up all their vegetation.
I will turn rivers into islands
and dry up marshes.(H)
16 I will lead the blind by a way they did not know;(I)
I will guide them on paths they have not known.
I will turn darkness to light in front of them(J)
and rough places into level ground.(K)
This is what I will do for them,
and I will not abandon them.(L)
17 They will be turned back and utterly ashamed—
those who trust in an idol
and say to a cast image,
‘You are our gods!’ (M)
Israel’s Blindness and Deafness
18 “Listen, you deaf!
Look, you blind, so that you may see.(N)
32 Remember the earlier days when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings.(A) 33 Sometimes you were publicly exposed to taunts and afflictions, and at other times you were companions of those who were treated that way.(B) 34 For you sympathized with the prisoners[a] and accepted with joy the confiscation of your possessions, because you know that you yourselves have a better and enduring possession.[b](C) 35 So don’t throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.(D) 36 For you need endurance, so that after you have done God’s will, you may receive what was promised.(E)
37 For yet in a very little while,
the Coming One will come and not delay.
38 But my righteous one[c] will live by faith;
and if he draws back,
I have no pleasure[d] in him.[e](F)
39 But we are not those who draw back and are destroyed, but those who have faith and are saved.
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