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Psalm 80

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.

28Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
²Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
³The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
⁴And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
⁵In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,
⁶And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
⁷But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
⁸For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
⁹Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
¹⁰For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
¹¹For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
¹²To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
¹³But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

³⁰And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it?
³¹It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:
³²But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.
³³And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.
³⁴But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.
³⁵And the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side.
³⁶And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships.
³⁷And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full.
³⁸And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?
³⁹And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
⁴⁰And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?
⁴¹And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?