Revealing Abba in the Psalms | How Jesus saw God as Abba

Revealing Abba in Psalm 80

O Abba Shepherd of Israel, You who lead Your children like a flock; Shine forth Your light in Me; Your dwelling place; speaking through Me, Your Son from between the cherubim, in an empty tomb;

Before the congregation show forth Your strength in Me, to save from death;

Turn their hearts again toward You; O Abba and cause Me; Your face; to shine upon all people saving them from death;

O Abba, how long will Your passion to preserve their lives with You eternally, burn against the prayers of the people; because of their fornication with the strength contained in their flesh; a union in which You could never be pleased;

You have given them over to their own way which has only filled their bread with sorrow and their drink with tears in great measure;

It brings strife where even their enemies do scoff and laugh among themselves;

Turn their hearts again toward You; O Abba and cause Me; Your face; to shine upon all people saving them from death;

You have brought Your people out of the bondage of Egypt, casting out the way of the heathen; so have You also promised to save them from the bondage of death, and plant them in Me; Your incorruptible life;

Turning them back from the way that leads unto death; so that My life can take deep root in them, Your garden;

You have spread Your skirt over Your children and have planted them a garden in Me, on a very fruitful hill; by rivers of life-giving waters; where their branches will bear much fruit;

This garden will prosper in Me; the vine, who sends out its branches unto the sea and into the river;

So why have you, O sons of men, forsaken Abba's protection for the life you can have by the strength of your own hands, in a dry and unfruitful land where you will perish?

Apart from Me, the vine Abba will the enemy waste their fruit and the wild beast will devour it;

Let Us gather them unto You Abba; so that they may look upon Me the vine; and the garden which You have planted for them in Me at Your right hand; so that the branch might only find its strength in You Abba, and the way that brought death shall be cut down and burned up; perishing at Your correction in the light of My face;

Let Your hand be upon Me; Your right hand; the son of man; whom you shall glorify with the glory I had with You Abba before the world began;

So that they can behold themselves in Me; seeing Your face shining back at them, and call upon Your name;

Turning their hearts again toward You; O Abba and causing Me; Your face; to shine upon all people saving them from death.

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