Shepherd of souls, the great, the good, who leadest Israel

Verse 1
Shepherd of souls, the great, the good, (Ps. 80:1, John 10:11, Heb. 13:20, I Pet. 2:25)
Who leadest Israel like a sheep, (Ps. 80:1, Ps. 77:20, Ps. 78:52)
Present to guard, and give them food,
And kindly in thy bosom keep; (Isa. 40:11)

Verse 2
Hear thy afflicted people’s prayer, (Ps. 80:1, Ps. 80:4)
Arise out of thy holy place, (Zech. 2:13)
Stir up thy strength, thine arm make bare, (Ps. 80:2, Isa. 52:10)
And vindicate thy chosen race. (Ps. 135:4, I Pet. 2:9)

Verse 3
Haste to our help, thou God of love, (Ps. 22:19, Ps. 38:22, Ps. 70:1, Ps. 71:12, II Cor. 13:11, I John 4:8, I John 4:16)
Supreme Almighty King of kings, (I Tim. 6:15, Rev. 17:14, Rev. 19:16)
Descend all-glorious from above,
Come flying on the cherubs’ wings. (Ps. 80:1, II Sam. 22:10-11, Ps. 18:9-10)

Verse 4
Turn us again, O Lord, and shew
The brightness of thy lovely face, (Ps. 80:3, Ps. 80:7, Ps. 80:19, Num. 6:25, Ps. 31:16, Ps. 67:1)
So shall we all be saints below,
And sav’d, and perfected in grace. (Ps. 80:3, Eph. 2:8, Heb. 10:14, I Pet. 5:10)

Verse 5
O Lord of hosts, O God of grace, (Ps. 80:4, I Pet. 5:10)
How long shall thy fierce anger burn (Ps. 80:4, Ps. 74:1, Ps. 79:5, Ps. 85:5, Ps. 89:46)
Against thine own peculiar race (Deut. 7:6, Deut. 14:2, Tit. 2:14, I Pet. 2:9)
Who ever pray thee to return! (Ps. 80:14)

Verse 6
Thou giv’st us plenteous draughts of tears,
With tears thou dost thy people feed, (Ps. 80:5, Ps. 42:3, Ps. 102:9)
We sorrow, till thy face appears, (Ps. 80:3, Ps. 17:15)
Affliction is our daily bread. (Ps. 80:5, Deut. 16:3, I Kings 22:27, Isa. 30:20)

Verse 7
A strife we are to all around,
By vile intestine vipers torn,
Our bitter household foes abound, (Mic. 7:6, Matt. 10:36)
And laugh our fallen church to scorn. (Ps. 80:6, Ps. 44:13-14, Ps. 79:4)

Verse 8
Turn us again, O Lord, and shew
The brightness of thy lovely face, (Ps. 80:3, Ps. 80:7, Ps. 80:19, Num. 6:25, Ps. 31:16, Ps. 67:1)
So shall we all be saints below,
And sav’d, and perfected in grace. (Ps. 80:3, Eph. 2:8, Heb. 10:14, I Pet. 5:10)

Verse 9
Surely, O Lord, we once were thine,
(Thou hast for us thy wonders wrought)
A generous and right noble vine,
When newly out of Egypt brought. (Ps. 80:8, Jer. 2:21)

Verse 10
Thou didst the heathen stock expel,
And chase them from their quiet home, (Ps. 80:8, Ps. 44:2, Ps. 78:55)
Druids, and all the brood of hell, (Matt. 23:33)
And monks of antichristian Rome. (I John 2:18)

Verse 11
Planted by thine almighty hand, (Ps. 80:15, Ps. 44:2, Isa. 60:21)
Watered with blood, the vine took root,
And spread throughout the happy land,
And fill’d the earth with golden fruit. (Ps. 80:9, Isa. 27:6)

Verse 12
The hills were cover’d with her shade,
Her branchy arms extending wide (Hos. 14:5-6)
Their fair luxuriant honours spread,
And flourish’d as the cedar’s pride. (Ps. 80:10-11, Ps. 92:12, Ezek. 17:23)

Verse 13
Her boughs she stretch’d from sea to sea, (Ps. 80:11)
And reach’d to frozen Scotia’s shore,
(They once rever’d the hierarchy,
And bless’d the mitre’s sacred power.) (Ex. 28:4, Lev. 8:9)

Verse 14
Why then hast thou abhor’d thine own, (Ps. 89:38)
And cast thy pleasant plant away; (Ps. 80:8, Isa. 5:7)
Broke down her hedge, her fence o’erthrown, (Ps. 80:12, Ps. 89:40, Isa. 5:5)
And left her to the beasts of prey? (Ps. 80:13, Jer. 12:9, Ezek. 34:5)

Verse 15
All that go by pluck off her grapes,
Our Sion of her children spoil, (Ps. 80:12)
And error in ten thousand shapes
Would every gracious soul beguile. (II Cor. 11:3, II Cor. 11:13-15, Col. 2:4)

Verse 16
The boar out of the German wood
Tears up her roots with baleful power; (Ps. 80:13)
The lyon roaring for his food,
And all the forest beasts devour. (Ps. 80:13, Ps. 22:13, Ps. 104:21, Isa. 56:9, Jer. 5:6, I Pet. 5:8)

Verse 17[1]
Deists, and sectaries agree,
And Calvin and Socinus join
To spoil the apostolic tree,
And root and branch destroy the vine.

Verse 18
Turn thee again, O Lord our God,
Look down with pity from above, (Ps. 80:14)
O lay aside thy vengeful rod, (Job 9:34)
And visit us in pard’ning love. (Ps. 80:14, Ps. 106:4)

Verse 19
The vineyard which thine own right hand
Hath planted in these nations see;
The branch that rose at thy command, (Ps. 80:8, Ps. 80:15)
And yielded gracious fruit to thee: (John 15:5, John 15:8)

Verse 20
’Tis now cut down, and burnt with fire. (Ps. 80:16, John 15:6)
Arm of the Lord, awake, awake, (Ps. 80:2, Isa. 51:9)
Visit thy foes in righteous ire,
Vengeance on all thy haters take. (Deut. 32:41, Nah. 1:2)

Verse 21
Look on them with thy flaming eyes, (Rev. 1:14, Rev. 2:18, Rev. 19:12)
The sin-consuming virtue dart;
And bid our fallen church arise, (Amos 9:11, Acts 15:16, Eph. 5:14)
And make us after thy own heart. (I Sam. 13:14, Jer. 3:15, Acts 13:22)

Verse 22
To us our nursing-fathers raise, (Isa. 49:23)
Thy grace be on the great bestow’d,
And let the king shew forth thy praise, (, Ps. 79:13, Ps. 138:4-5, Isa. 43:21, I Pet. 2:9)
And rise to build the house of God. (Ezra 1:2, Ezra 7:27)

Verse 23
Thou hast ordain’d the powers that be: (Dan. 2:21, Rom. 13:1)
Strengthen thy delegate below;
He bears the rule deriv’d from thee, (Ps. 80:17, Prov. 8:15-16, John 19:11, Rom. 13:4, I Pet. 2:13-14)
O let him all thine image shew. (Gen. 1:26, Col. 3:10)

Verse 24
Support him with thy guardian hand, (Ps. 80:17, Ps. 18:35, Ps. 89:21)
Thy royal grace be seen in him,
King of a re-converted land,
In goodness as in power supreme. (II Sam. 23:3, I Pet. 2:13-14)

Verse 25
So will we not from thee go back, (Ps. 80:18)
If thou our ruin’d church restore, (Amos 9:11)
No, never more will we forsake, (Joshua 24:16)
No, never will we grieve thee more.

Verse 26
Revive, O God of power, revive
Thy work in our degenerate days, (Hab. 3:2)
O let us by thy mercy live,
And all our lives shall speak thy praise.

Verse 27
Turn us again, O Lord, and shew
The brightness of thy lovely face, (Ps. 80:3, Ps. 80:7, Ps. 80:19, Num. 6:25, Ps. 31:16, Ps. 67:1)
So shall we all be saints below,
And sav’d, and perfected in grace. (Ps. 80:3, Eph. 2:8, Heb. 10:14, I Pet. 5:10)

[1] Wesley omitted this stanza in 1748 and later editions.