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 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 in the presence of Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Gather together your power and come to save us!
before Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin. Stir up your mighty power, come to our help.
3 God, please restore us! Let your face shine on us so we can be saved.
God, restore us: show us the light of your face, so we may be saved.
4 Lord God Almighty, how long will you be angry with the prayers of your people?
O Lord of hosts, how long is your anger to smoke, despite the prayer of your people?
5 You fed them with the bread of tears, and gave them a full bowl of tears to drink.
You have fed them with bread of tears, you have made them drink tears by the measure.
6 You turn us into victims our neighbors fight over; our enemies mock us.
The scorn of our neighbours you make us, the laughing-stock of our foes.
7 God Almighty, please restore us! Let your face shine on us so we can be saved!
God of hosts, restore us: show us the light of your face, so we may be saved.
8 You carried us out of Egypt like a vine. You drove out the heathen nations, and then you planted the vine.
A vine out of Egypt you brought; you did drive out the nations, and plant her;
9 You prepared the ground for the vine. It took root and filled the land.
in the ground you did clear she struck root, and she filled all the land.
10 The mountains were covered by its shade; its branches covered the great cedars.
The shade of her covered the mountains, her branches the cedars of God.
11 It sent its branches as far west as the Mediterranean Sea, and its shoots as far east as the Euphrates River.
She sent forth her shoots to the sea, and her branches as far as 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 have you torn down her fences, and left her to be plucked at by all who pass by,
13 Wild pigs from the forest eat it, wild animals feed on it.
to be gnawed by the boar from the forest, and devoured by the beasts of the field?
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, return: look down from heaven and see and visit this vine, and restore her
15 that you planted yourself, this son that you brought up yourself.
the vine which your right hand has planted.
16 We, your vine, have been chopped down and burned. May those who did this die when you glare at them.
She is burned with fire and cut down before your stern face they are perishing.
17 Protect the man who stands beside you; strengthen the son you have chosen.
Support the one you have chosen, the one you have raised for yourself;
18 Then we will not turn away from you. Revive us so we can pray to you.
then from you we will never draw back. Preserve us, and we will call on your name.
19 Lord God Almighty, please restore us! Let your face shine on us so we can be saved.
Lord, God of hosts, restore us: Show us the light of your face, so we may be saved.
