7 Return us, and thy grace divine, 30 8 A Vine from Egypt thou hast brought, Thy free love made it thine, And drov'st out nations proud and haut, 9 Thou didst prepare for it a place, 10 With her green shade that covered all 11 Her branches on the western side Her other branches went. 12 Why hast thou laid her hedges low, That all may pluck her, as they go, 13 The tusked boar out of the wood Upturns it by the roots; 40 50 Wild beasts there browse, and make their food Her grapes and tender shoots. 14 Return now, God of Hosts; look down 15 Visit this Vine, which thy right hand Hath set, and planted long, 60 And the young branch, that for thy- Thou hast made firm and strong. 17 Upon the Man of thy right hand 18 So shall we not go back from thee Lord God of Hosts, vouchsafe: 70 80 PSALM LXXXI 1 To God our strength sing loud and clear; Sing loud to God our King; To Jacob's God, that all may hear, 2 Prepare a hymn, prepare a song; 4 This was a statute given of old A law of Jacob's God to hold, 5 This he a testimony ordained In Joseph, not to change, 10 When as he passed through Egyptland; The tongue I heard was strange. 6 From burden, and from slavish toil, I set his shoulder free; His hands from pots, and miry soil, 7 When trouble did thee sore assail, 20 I answered thee in 1 thunder deep, With clouds encompassed round; 30 I tried thee at the water steep Of Meriba renowned. 8 Hear, O my people, hearken well : I testify to thee, Thou ancient stock of Israel, If thou wilt list to me: 9 Throughout the land of thy abode No alien God shall be, Nor shalt thou to a foreign god In honour bend thy knee. 40 10 I am the Lord thy God, which brought Thee out of Egypt-land; Ask large enough, and I, besought, 11 And yet my people would not hear, And Israel, whom I loved so dear, 1 Be Sether ragnam. |