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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.

40Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
²Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.
³The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
⁴Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
⁵And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
⁶The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
⁷The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
⁸The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
⁹O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
¹⁰Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
¹¹He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.

3Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,
²Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.
³And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;
⁴As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
⁵Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
⁶And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
⁷Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
⁸Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
⁹And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
¹⁰And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?
¹¹He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.
¹²Then came also publicans to be baptized, and said unto him, Master, what shall we do?
¹³And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.
¹⁴And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.
¹⁵And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not;
¹⁶John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:
¹⁷Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.