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
To him that excelleth on Shoshannim Eduth. A Psalme committed to Asaph. Heare, O thou Shepheard of Israel, thou that leadest Ioseph like sheepe: shewe thy brightnes, thou that sittest betweene the Cherubims.
2 in the presence of Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Gather together your power and come to save us!
Before Ephraim and Beniamin and Manasseh stirre vp thy strength, and come to helpe vs.
3 God, please restore us! Let your face shine on us so we can be saved.
Turne vs againe, O God, and cause thy face to shine that we may be saued.
4 Lord God Almighty, how long will you be angry with the prayers of your people?
O Lord God of hostes, how long wilt thou be angrie against the prayer of thy people?
5 You fed them with the bread of tears, and gave them a full bowl of tears to drink.
Thou hast fedde them with the bread of teares, and giuen them teares to drinke with great measure.
6 You turn us into victims our neighbors fight over; our enemies mock us.
Thou hast made vs a strife vnto our neighbours, and our enemies laugh at vs among themselues.
7 God Almighty, please restore us! Let your face shine on us so we can be saved!
Turne vs againe, O God of hostes: cause thy face to shine, and we shalbe saued.
8 You carried us out of Egypt like a vine. You drove out the heathen nations, and then you planted the vine.
Thou hast brought 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 roume for it, and didest cause it to take roote, and it filled the land.
10 The mountains were covered by its shade; its branches covered the great cedars.
The mountaines were couered with the shadowe of it, and the boughes thereof were like 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.
Shee stretched out her branches vnto the Sea, and her boughes vnto the Riuer.
12 So why have you broken down the walls that protect it so that everyone who passes by can steal its fruit?
Why hast thou then broken downe her hedges, so that all they, which passe by the way, haue plucked her?
13 Wild pigs from the forest eat it, wild animals feed on it.
The wilde bore out of the wood hath destroyed it, and the wilde beastes of the fielde haue eaten it vp.
14 God Almighty, please return to us! Look down from heaven and see what's happening to us! Come and care for this vine
Returne we beseech thee, O God of hostes: looke downe from heauen and beholde and visite this vine,
15 that you planted yourself, this son that you brought up yourself.
And the vineyard, that thy right hand hath planted, and the young vine, which thou madest strong for thy selfe.
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 cut downe: and they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
17 Protect the man who stands beside you; strengthen the son you have chosen.
Let thine hande be vpon the man of thy right hande, and vpon the sonne of man, whome thou madest strong for thine owne selfe.
18 Then we will not turn away from you. Revive us so we can pray to you.
So will not we goe backe from thee: reuiue thou vs, and we shall call vpon thy Name.
19 Lord God Almighty, please restore us! Let your face shine on us so we can be saved.
Turne vs againe, O Lord God of hostes: cause thy face to shine and we shalbe saued.
