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
Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.
2 in the presence of Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Gather together your power and come to save us!
Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.
3 God, please restore us! Let your face shine on us so we can be saved.
Turn us again, O Elohim, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
4 Lord God Almighty, how long will you be angry with the prayers of your people?
O YHWH Elohim of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry 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 feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
6 You turn us into victims our neighbors fight over; our enemies mock us.
Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
7 God Almighty, please restore us! Let your face shine on us so we can be saved!
Turn us again, O Elohim of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
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 preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
10 The mountains were covered by its shade; its branches covered the great cedars.
The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs 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.
She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
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 down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
13 Wild pigs from the forest eat it, wild animals feed on it.
The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour 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
Return, we beseech thee, O Elohim of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
15 that you planted yourself, this son that you brought up yourself.
And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong 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 burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
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, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
18 Then we will not turn away from you. Revive us so we can pray to you.
So will not we go back from thee: 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 again, O YHWH Elohim of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
