PSALM 80 & 81: You will go deep in religion matters if pray with the psalm always.

 Its prayer is the prayer under Psalm 16.


Psalm 80


Open your ears, O Roeh of Israel,
    the one who leads the descendants of Joseph like sheep,
    the one who is enthroned over the angels.
Appear in front of Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh.
    Wake up your power, and come to save us.
Elohim, restore us and smile on us
    so that we may be saved.
Yahweh Elohim Tsebaoth, how long will you smolder in anger
    against the prayer of your people?
You made them eat tears as food.
    You often made them drink their own tears.
You made us a source of conflict to our neighbors,
    and our enemies made fun of us.
Elohim Tsebaoth, restore us and smile on us
    so that we may be saved.
You brought a vine from Egypt.
    You forced out the nations and planted it.
You cleared the ground for it
    so that it took root and filled the land.
10 Its shade covered the mountains.
    Its branches covered the mighty cedars.
11 It reached out with its branches to the Mediterranean Sea.
    Its shoots reached the Euphrates River.
12 Why did you break down the stone fences around this vine?
    All who pass by are picking its fruit.
13 Wild boars from the forest graze on it.
    Wild animals devour it.
14 Elohim Tsebaoth, come back!
    Look from heaven and see!
    Come to help this vine.
15 Take care of what your right hand planted,
    the son you strengthened for yourself.
16 The vine has been cut down and burned.
    Let them be destroyed by the threatening look on your face.
17 Let your power rest on the man you have chosen,
    the son of man you strengthened for yourself.
18 Then we will never turn away from you.
    Give us life again, and we will call on you.
19 Yahweh Elohim Tsebaoth, restore us, and smile on us
    so that we may be saved.

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Psalm 81


Sing joyfully to Elohim, our strength.
    Shout happily to the Elohim of Jacob.
Begin a psalm, and strike a tambourine.
    Play lyres and harps with their pleasant music.
Blow the ram’s horn on the day of the new moon,
    on the day of the full moon,
    on our festival days.
This is a law for Israel,
    a legal decision from the Elohim of Jacob.
        
            when Joseph rose to power over Egypt.
I heard a message I did not understand:
“I removed the burden from his shoulder.
    His hands were freed from the basket.
When you were in trouble, you called out to me, and I rescued you.
    I was hidden in thunder, but I answered you.
    I tested your loyalty at the oasis of Meribah. Selah
        
            Israel, if you would only listen to me!
        
        Never worship a foreign god.
10 I am Yahweh your Elohim, the one who brought you out of Egypt.
    Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11 “But my people did not listen to me.
    Israel wanted nothing to do with me.
12 So I let them go their own stubborn ways
    and follow their own advice.
13 If only my people would listen to me!
    If only Israel would follow me!
14 I would quickly defeat their enemies.
    I would turn my power against their foes.
15 Those who hate Yahweh would cringe in front of him,
    and their time for punishment would last forever.
16 But I would feed Israel with the finest wheat
    and satisfy them with honey from a rock.”


PRAYER:

Psalm 16

1 Protect me, O El, because I take refuge in you.
2 I said to Yahweh,
    “You are my Adonay. Without you, I have nothing good.”
3 Those who lead holy lives on earth
    are the noble ones who fill me with joy.
4 Those who quickly chase after other gods multiply their sorrows.
    I will not pour out their sacrificial offerings of blood
        or use my lips to speak their names.

5 Yahweh is my inheritance and my cup.
    You are the one who determines my destiny.
6 Your boundary lines mark out pleasant places for me.
    Indeed, my inheritance is something beautiful.

7 I will praise Yahweh, who advises me.
    My conscience warns me at night.
8 I always keep Yahweh in front of me.
    When he is by my side, I cannot be moved.
9         That is why my heart is glad and my soul rejoices.
            My body rests securely
10 because you do not abandon my soul to the grave
    or allow your holy one to decay.
11 You make the path of life known to me.
    Complete joy is in your presence.
        Pleasures are by your side forever.

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