Psalms 80
1 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;
For the music director. A psalm of Asaph. To the tune “Lilies of the Covenant.” Please hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead the descendants of Joseph like a flock. You who sit on your throne above the cherubim, shine out
2 before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasse, stir up thy power, and come to deliver us.
in the presence of Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Gather together your power and come to save us!
3 Turn us, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be delivered.
God, please restore us! Let your face shine on us so we can be saved.
4 O Lord God of hosts, how long art thou angry with the prayer of thy servant?
Lord God Almighty, how long will you be angry with the prayers of your people?
5 Thou wilt feed us with bread of tears; and wilt cause us to drink tears by measure.
You fed them with the bread of tears, and gave them a full bowl of tears to drink.
6 Thou has made us a strife to our neighbours; and our enemies have mocked at us.
You turn us into victims our neighbors fight over; our enemies mock us.
7 Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. (Pause)
God Almighty, please restore us! Let your face shine on us so we can be saved!
8 Thou hast transplanted a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
You carried us out of Egypt like a vine. You drove out the heathen nations, and then you planted the vine.
9 Thou madest a way before it, and didst cause its roots to strike, and the land was filled [with it].
You prepared the ground for the vine. It took root and filled the land.
10 Its shadow covered the mountains, and its shoots [equalled] the goodly cedars.
The mountains were covered by its shade; its branches covered the great cedars.
11 It sent forth its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the river.
It sent its branches as far west as the Mediterranean Sea, and its shoots as far east as the Euphrates River.
12 Wherefore hast thou broken down its hedge, while all that pass by the way pluck it?
So why have you broken down the walls that protect it so that everyone who passes by can steal its fruit?
13 The boar out of the wood has laid it waste, and the wild beast has devoured it.
Wild pigs from the forest eat it, wild animals feed on it.
14 O God of hosts, turn, we pray thee: look on [us] from heaven, and behold and visit this vine;
God Almighty, please return to us! Look down from heaven and see what's happening to us! Come and care for this vine
15 and restore that which thy right hand has planted: and look on the son of man whom thou didst strengthen for thyself.
that you planted yourself, this son that you brought up yourself.
16 [It is] burnt with fire and dug up: they shall perish at the rebuke of thy presence.
We, your vine, have been chopped down and burned. May those who did this die when you glare at them.
17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, and upon the son of man whom thou didst strengthen for thyself.
Protect the man who stands beside you; strengthen the son you have chosen.
18 So will we not depart from thee: thou shalt quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
Then we will not turn away from you. Revive us so we can pray to you.
19 Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and make thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Lord God Almighty, please restore us! Let your face shine on us so we can be saved.
