Psalms 80

1 For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” A Psalm of Asaph. Hear us, O Shepherd of Israel, who leads Joseph like a flock; You who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth

For the end, for alternate [strains], a testimony for Asaph, a Psalm concerning the Assyrian. Attend, O Shepherd of Israel, who guidest Joseph like a flock; thou who sittest upon the cherubs, manifest thyself;

2 before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Rally Your mighty power and come to save us.

before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasse, stir up thy power, and come to deliver us.

3 Restore us, O God, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.

Turn us, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be delivered.

4 O LORD God of Hosts, how long will Your anger smolder against the prayers of Your people?

O Lord God of hosts, how long art thou angry with the prayer of thy servant?

5 You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.

Thou wilt feed us with bread of tears; and wilt cause us to drink tears by measure.

6 You make us contend with our neighbors; our enemies mock us.

Thou has made us a strife to our neighbours; and our enemies have mocked at us.

7 Restore us, O God of Hosts, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.

Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. (Pause)

8 You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.

Thou hast transplanted a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

9 You cleared the ground for it, and it took root and filled the land.

Thou madest a way before it, and didst cause its roots to strike, and the land was filled [with it].

10 The mountains were covered by its shade, and the mighty cedars with its branches.

Its shadow covered the mountains, and its shoots [equalled] the goodly cedars.

11 It sent out its branches to the Sea, and its shoots toward the River.

It sent forth its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the river.

12 Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?

Wherefore hast thou broken down its hedge, while all that pass by the way pluck it?

13 The boar from the forest ravages it, and the creatures of the field feed upon it.

The boar out of the wood has laid it waste, and the wild beast has devoured it.

14 Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine—

O God of hosts, turn, we pray thee: look on [us] from heaven, and behold and visit this vine;

15 the root Your right hand has planted, the son You have raised up for Yourself.

and restore that which thy right hand has planted: and look on the son of man whom thou didst strengthen for thyself.

16 Your vine has been cut down and burned; they perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.

[It is] burnt with fire and dug up: they shall perish at the rebuke of thy presence.

17 Let Your hand be upon the man at Your right hand, on the son of man You have raised up for Yourself.

Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, and upon the son of man whom thou didst strengthen for thyself.

18 Then we will not turn away from You; revive us, and we will call on Your name.

So will we not depart from thee: thou shalt quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.

19 Restore us, O LORD God of Hosts; cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.

Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and make thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.