Lesson: Turn Away from Evil to Live
Reading: Turn to God to see his face
Reference: Ps. 80:1-19
Psalms 80:1: Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.
Psalms 80:2: Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.
Psalms 80:3: Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Psalms 80:4: O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
Psalms 80:5: Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
Psalms 80:6: Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
Psalms 80:7: Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Psalms 80:8: Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
Psalms 80:9: Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
Psalms 80:10: The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
Psalms 80:11: She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
Psalms 80:12: Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
Psalms 80:13: The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Psalms 80:14: Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
Psalms 80:15: And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
Psalms 80:16: It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
Psalms 80:17: Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
Psalms 80:18: So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
Psalms 80:19: Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
(KJV)