Psalm 80

0 To the leader: on Lilies, a Covenant. Of Asaph. A Psalm.
1  Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,
  you who lead Joseph like a flock!
 You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth
2   before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh.
 Stir up your might,
  and come to save us!
3  Restore us, O God;
  let your face shine, that we may be saved.
4  O LORD God of hosts,
  how long will you be angry with your people’s prayers?
5  You have fed them with the bread of tears,
  and given them tears to drink in full measure.
6  You make us the scorn of our neighbors;
  our enemies laugh among themselves.
7  Restore us, O God of hosts;
  let your face shine, that we may be saved.
8  You brought a vine out of Egypt;
  you drove out the nations and planted it.
9  You cleared the ground for it;
  it took deep root and filled the land.
10  The mountains were covered with its shade,
  the mighty cedars with its branches;
11  it sent out its branches to the sea,
  and its shoots to the River.
12  Why then have you broken down its walls,
  so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
13  The boar from the forest ravages it,
  and all that move in the field feed on it.
14  Turn again, O God of hosts;
  look down from heaven, and see;
 have regard for this vine,
15   the stock that your right hand planted.
16  They have burned it with fire, they have cut it down;
  may they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.
17  But let your hand be upon the one at your right hand,
  the one whom you made strong for yourself.
18  Then we will never turn back from you;
  give us life, and we will call on your name.
19  Restore us, O LORD God of hosts;
  let your face shine, that we may be saved.

Daily Prayer (based on Psalm 80:14)

Lord Jesus Christ, You are the vine; we are the branches. You are the true vine, the only One in whom we find life. When connected to You, Lord, we thrive and bear the sweet fruit of life worth living. When we try to go on our own, cut off from You, we waste away like withering branches, thus wasting our very lives.

Postscript

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower. He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit.  You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you.  Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.  I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.  Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.  If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.  My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples."

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