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. On shoshannim, eduth. Of Asaph, a psalm. Listen, Shepherd of Israel, who leads Joseph like a flock of sheep; from your throne on the cherubs shine forth
2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, let your strength be awake from sleep, and come as our salvation.
before Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin. Stir up your mighty power, come to our help.
3 Take us back again, O God; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.
God, restore us: show us the light of your face, so we may be saved.
4 O Lord God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your people?
O Lord of hosts, how long is your anger to smoke, despite the prayer of your people?
5 You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.
You have fed them with bread of tears, you have made them drink tears by the measure.
6 You make us a cause of war among our neighbours; our haters are laughing at us among themselves.
The scorn of our neighbors you make us, the laughing-stock of our foes.
7 Take us back again, O God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.
God of hosts, restore us: show us the light of your face, so we may be saved.
8 You took a vine out of Egypt: driving out the nations, and planting it in their land.
A vine out of Egypt you brought; you did drive out the nations, and plant her;
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.
in the ground you did clear she struck root, and she filled all the land.
10 The mountains were covered with its shade, and the great trees with its branches.
The shade of her covered the mountains, her branches the cedars of God.
11 It sent out its arms to the Sea, and its branches to the River.
She sent forth her shoots to the sea, and her branches as far as the River.
12 Why are its walls broken down by your hands, so that all who go by may take its fruit?
Why have you torn down her fences, and left her to be plucked at by all who pass by,
13 It is uprooted by the pigs from the woods, the beasts of the field get their food from it.
to be gnawed by the boar from the forest, and devoured by the beasts of the field?
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: look down from heaven and see and visit this vine, and restore her
15 Even to the tree which was planted by your right hand, and to the branch which you made strong for yourself.
the vine which your right hand has planted.
16 It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face.
She is burned with fire and cut down before your stern face they are perishing.
17 Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.
Support the one you have chosen, the one you have raised for yourself;
18 So will we not be turned back from you; keep us in life, and we will give praise to your name.
then from you we will never draw back. Preserve us, and we will call on your name.
19 Take us back, O Lord God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.
Lord, God of hosts, restore us: Show us the light of your face, so we may be saved.
