Psalms 80

1 To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim-eduth. Of Asaph. A Psalm. Give ear, O Keeper of Israel, guiding Joseph like a flock; you who have your seat on the winged ones, let your glory be seen.

To the chief Musician. On Shoshannim-Eduth. Of Asaph. A Psalm. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that sittest [between] the cherubim, shine forth.

2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, let your strength be awake from sleep, and come as our salvation.

Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy strength, and come to our deliverance.

3 Take us back again, O God; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.

O God, restore us; and cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

4 O Lord God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your people?

Jehovah, God of hosts, how long will thine anger smoke against the prayer of thy people?

5 You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.

Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure:

6 You make us a cause of war among our neighbours; our haters are laughing at us among themselves.

Thou hast made us a strife unto our neighbours, and our enemies mock among themselves.

7 Take us back again, O God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.

Restore us, O God of hosts; and cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

8 You took a vine out of Egypt: driving out the nations, and planting it in their land.

Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt; thou didst cast out the nations, and plant it:

9 You made ready a place for it, so that it might take deep root, and it sent out its branches over all the land.

Thou preparedst space before it, and it took deep root, and filled the land;

10 The mountains were covered with its shade, and the great trees with its branches.

The mountains were covered with its shadow, and the branches thereof were [like] cedars of God;

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

It sent out its boughs unto the sea, and its shoots unto the river.

12 Why are its walls broken down by your hands, so that all who go by may take its fruit?

Why hast thou broken down its fences, so that all who pass by the way do pluck it?

13 It is uprooted by the pigs from the woods, the beasts of the field get their food from it.

The boar out of the forest doth waste it, and the beast of the field doth feed off it.

14 Come back, O God of armies: from heaven let your eyes be turned to this vine, and give your mind to it,

O God of hosts, return, we beseech thee; look down from the heavens, and behold, and visit this vine;

15 Even to the tree which was planted by your right hand, and to the branch which you made strong for yourself.

Even the stock which thy right hand hath planted, and the young plant thou madest strong for thyself.

16 It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face.

It is burned with fire, it is cut down; they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

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 upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou hast made strong for thyself.

18 So will we not be turned back from you; keep us in life, and we will give praise to your name.

So will we not go back from thee. Revive us, and we will call upon thy name.

19 Take us back, O Lord God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.

Restore us, O Jehovah, God of hosts; cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.