Psalms 80
1 For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” A Psalm by Asaph. Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.
“To the chief musician upon Shoshannim; an 'Eduth by Assaph; a psalm.” O Shepherd of Israel, give ear, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.
2 Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us!
Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Menasseh awaken thy might, and come to our help.
3 Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
O God, cause us to return, and let thy countenance shine, that we may be saved.
4 LORD God of Armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
O Lord of hosts, how long shall thy anger smoke against the prayer of thy people?
5 You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears, and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
6 You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.
Thou renderest us a contest unto our neighbors: and our enemies hold derision among themselves.
7 Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
O God of hosts, cause us to return, and let thy countenance shine, that we may be saved.
8 You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.
A vine didst thou remove out of Egypt: thou drovest out nations, and plantedst it.
9 You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land.
Thou didst clear out a place before it, and it struck its root deeply, and it filled the land.
10 The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God’s cedars.
Mountains were covered with its shadow, and with its boughs the cedars of God.
11 It sent out its branches to the sea, its shoots to the River.
It sent out its tendrils as far as the sea, and unto the river its suckers.
12 Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?
Wherefore hast thou now broken down its fences, so that all who pass by the way pluck the fruit from it?
13 The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.
The boar out of the forest doth gnaw at it, and what moveth on the field feedeth on it.
14 Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,
O God of hosts, return; I pray thee, look down from heaven, and behold, and think of this vine;
15 the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself.
And of the sprout which thy right hand hath planted, and of the branch that thou hast made strong for thyself.
16 It’s burned with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke.
It is burnt with fire, it is hewn down; because of the rebuke of thy countenance do they perish.
17 Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.
Let thy hand be over the man of thy right hand, over the son of man whom thou hast made strong for thyself.
18 So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.
Then will we not swerve from thee: revive us again, and we will call on thy name.
19 Turn us again, LORD God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
O Lord God of hosts, cause us to return: let thy countenance shine, that we may be saved.
