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.

For the Leader; upon Shoshannim. A testimony. A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; Thou that art enthroned upon 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 might, and come to save us.

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?

O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt Thou be angry 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 makest us a strife unto our neighbours; and our enemies mock as they please.

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

O God of hosts, restore us; 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 didst pluck up a vine out of Egypt; Thou didst drive out the nations, and didst 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 didst clear a place 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 the shadow of it, and the mighty cedars with the boughs thereof.

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

She sent out her branches unto the sea, and her 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 her fences, so that all they that pass by the way do pluck her?

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 wood doth ravage it, that which moveth in the field feedeth on 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 from heaven, and behold, and be mindful of this vine,

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

And of the stock which Thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that 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 madest 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 shall we not turn back from Thee; quicken Thou 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.

O LORD God of hosts, restore us; cause Thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.