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 upon Shoshannim-eduth, A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest [between] the cherubims, 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 [and] save us.

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

Turn us again, O God, 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 feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great 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 laugh among themselves.

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

Turn us again, 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 hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted 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 [room] before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

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

The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof [were like] the goodly cedars.

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

She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches 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 [then] broken down her hedges, so that all they which 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 waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.

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

Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, 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.

And the vineyard 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 will not we go back from thee: quicken 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.

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