Qui Regis Israel. Ps.80.I.H.

A lamentable prayer to God to help the miseries of the Church, desiring him to consider the first estate when his favor shined toward them that he might finish that work which he had begun.

Sing this as the 67 Psalm.
The first part The second part
Thou heard that Israel dost keep,
give ear and take good heed:
Which leadest Joseph like a sheep,
and dost him watch and feed.
 
2 Thou Lord I say, whose seat is set,
on Cherubims so bright:
Show forth thyself, and do not let,
send down thy beams of light.
 
3 Before Ephraim and Benjamin,
Manasseh eke likewise:
To show thy power do thou begin,
come help us Lord arise.
 
4 Direct our hearts unto thy grace,
convert us Lord to thee:
Show us the brightness of thy face,
and then full safe are we.
 
5 Lord God of hosts of Israel,
how long wilt thou I say,
Against thy folk in anger swell,
and wilt not hear them pray:
 
6 Thou doest them feed with sorrows deep
their bread with tears they eat,
And drink the tears that they do weep,
in measure full and great.
 
7 Thou hast us made a very strive
to those that dwell about:
And that our foes do love a live,
they laugh and jest it out.
 
8 O take us Lord unto thy grace,
convert our minds to thee.
Show forth to us thy joyful face,
and we full safe shall be.
 
9 From Egypt where it grew not well,
thou brought’st a vine full dear:
The heathen folk thou didst expel,
and thou didst plant it there.
 
10 Thou didst prepare for it a place,
and set her roots full fast:
That it did grow and spring apace,
and filled the land at last.
11 The hills were covered round about,
with shade that from it came.
And eke the Cedars high and stout,
with branches of the same.
 
12 Why then didst thou her wall destroy,
her hedge plucked up thou haste:
That all the folk that pass thereby,
thy vine may spoil and waste.
 
13 The Boar out of the wood so wild,
doth dig and root it out:
The furious beast out of the field
devour it all about.
 
14 O Lord of hosts return again,
from heaven look betime:
Behold and with thy help sustain,
this poor vineyard of thine.
 
15 Thy plant I say, thine Israel
whom thy right hand hath set:
The same which thou didst love so well,
O Lord, do not forget.
 
16 They lop and cut it down apace,
they burn it eke with fire:
And through the frowning of thy face,
we perish in thine ire.
 
17 Let thy right hand be with them now,
whom thou hast kept so long:
And with the son of man, whom thou
to thee hast made so strong.
 
18 And so when thou hast set us free,
and saved us from shame.
Then will we never fall from thee,
but call upon thy name.
 
19 O Lord of hosts through thy good grace,
convert us unto thee;
Behold us with a pleasant face,
and then full safe are we.

THE BOOK OF PSALMS

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