Psalms — Chapter 80
For the leader; on shoshannim, eduth. Of Asaph. A psalm.
Give ear, O shepherd of Israelwho leads Joseph like a flock!Appear, You who are enthroned on the cherubim,
at the head of Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh!Rouse Your might and come to our help!
Restore us, O God;show Your favor that we may be delivered.
O ETERNAL One, God of hosts,how long will You be wrathfultoward the prayers of Your people?
You have fed them tears as their daily bread,made them drink great measures of tears.
You set us at strife with our neighbors;our enemies mock us at will.
O God of hosts, restore us;show Your favor that we may be delivered.
You plucked up a vine from Egypt;You expelled nations and planted it.
You cleared a place for it;it took deep root and filled the land.
The mountains were covered by its shade,mighty cedars by its boughs.
Its branches reached the sea,its shoots, the river.
Why did You breach its wallso that every passerby plucks its fruit,
wild boars gnaw at it,and creatures of the field feed on it?
O God of hosts, turn again,look down from heaven and see;take note of that vine,
the stock planted by Your right hand,the stemastem Lit. “son.” you have taken as Your own.
For it is burned by fire and cut down,perishing before Your angry blast.
Grant Your helpbhelp Lit. “hand.” to the one at Your right hand,the mortal You have taken as Your own.
We will not turn away from You;preserve our life that we may invoke Your name.
O ETERNAL One, God of hosts, restore us;show Your favor that we may be delivered.
✦ Connected Across Traditions
The Golden Rule
Matthew 7:12
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
Hadith (An-Nawawi 13)
“None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.”
Mahabharata 5.1517
“One should never do to another what one regards as injurious to oneself.”
Dhammapada 10:1
“All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.”
Divine Compassion & Mercy
Quran 1:1
“In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.”
Luke 6:36
“Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.”
Snp 1.8
“As a mother would risk her life to protect her child, her only child, even so should one cultivate a limitless heart with regard to all beings.”
Guru Granth Sahib, Ang 1
“One Universal Creator God. The Name Is Truth. Creative Being Personified. No Fear. No Hatred.”
Impermanence & Letting Go
Dhammapada 20:277
“All conditioned things are impermanent. When one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.”
Tao Te Ching 76
“A man is born gentle and weak. At his death he is hard and stiff. The soft and yielding is the disciple of life.”
Ecclesiastes 3:1-2
“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.”
Bhagavad Gita 2:22
“As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.”