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