Psalm & Prayer: Psalm 80

Psalm 80:1-19 (NLT)  Please listen, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph’s descendants like a flock. O God, enthroned above the cherubim, display your radiant glory 2  to Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Show us your mighty power. Come to rescue us! 3  Turn us again to yourself, O God. Make your face shine down upon us. Only then will we be saved. 4  O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, how long will you be angry with our prayers? 5  You have fed us with sorrow and made us drink tears by the bucketful. 6  You have made us the scorn of neighboring nations. Our enemies treat us as a joke. 7  Turn us again to yourself, O God of Heaven’s Armies. Make your face shine down upon us. Only then will we be saved. 18  Then we will never abandon you again. Revive us so we can call on your name once more. 19  Turn us again to yourself, O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies. Make your face shine down upon us. Only then will we be saved.

Psalm Prayer: Lord God, you so tend the vine you planted that now it extends its branches throughout the world. Keep us in Christ as branches on the vine, that, grafted firmly in your love, we may show the whole world your great power and bear the fruit of righteousness; through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. Amen.