Psalm 80 (KJV): Cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved

From Psalms

Psalm 80
(For the director of music.  To the tune of "The Lilies of the Covenant."  Of Asaph.  A psalm.)

¹Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,
      thou that leadest Joseph like a flock;
thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.
²Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh
      stir up thy strength, and come and save us.

³Turn us again, O God,
      and cause thy face to shine;
      and we shall be saved.

⁴O LORD God of hosts,
      how long wilt thou be angry
      against the prayer of thy people?
⁵Thou feedest them with the bread of tears;
      and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
⁶Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours:
      and our enemies laugh among themselves.

⁷Turn us again, O God of hosts,
      and cause thy face to shine;
      and we shall be saved.

⁸Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt:
      thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
⁹Thou preparedst room before it,
      and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
¹⁰The hills were covered with the shadow of it,
      and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
¹¹She sent out her boughs unto the sea,
      and her branches unto the river.

¹²Why hast thou then broken down her hedges,
      so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
¹³The boar out of the wood doth waste it,
      and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
¹⁴Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts:
      look down from heaven, and behold,
and visit this vine;
¹⁵And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted,
      and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.

¹⁶It is burned with fire, it is cut down:
      they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
¹⁷Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand,
      upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
¹⁸So will not we go back from thee:
      quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.

¹⁹Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts,
      cause thy face to shine;
      and we shall be saved.

O Lord, please give me another day of sobriety.  Deliver me not into the temptation of my addictions sex, alcohol, or drugs.  Help me focus on your way and focus on your will and let me not be distracted by the empty idols that we are bombarded with everyday.  Cause thy face to shine on me that I may saved, and can be an example for those around me of thy power.  Help me seek to understand rather than to be understood.  That where there is wrong, that I may bring the spirit forgiveness.  That where there is error, I may bring truth. That where there is doubt, I may bring faith.

Let your word be a light for me as I journey down step 8 of the twelve steps.  That I will truly see those who I have hurt with my addictions, and how that's effected them.  Help me be open, honest and completely truthful in this search.  That you can show me how best to make amends to those people and prepare for step 9.

Indeed cause thy face to shine, so that all of us addicts can be saved.  Amen.

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