Psalms 80
1 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.
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 Before Ephraim and Beniamin and Manasseh stirre vp thy strength, and come to helpe vs.
before Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin. Stir up your mighty power, come to our help.
3 Turne vs againe, O God, and cause thy face to shine that we may be saued.
God, restore us: show us the light of your face, so we may be saved.
4 O Lord God of hostes, how long wilt thou be angrie against the prayer of thy people?
O Lord of hosts, how long is your anger to smoke, despite the prayer of your people?
5 Thou hast fedde them with the bread of teares, and giuen them teares to drinke with great measure.
You have fed them with bread of tears, you have made them drink tears by the measure.
6 Thou hast made vs a strife vnto our neighbours, and our enemies laugh at vs among themselues.
The scorn of our neighbors you make us, the laughing-stock of our foes.
7 Turne vs againe, O God of hostes: cause thy face to shine, and we shalbe saued.
God of hosts, restore us: show us the light of your face, so we may be saved.
8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
A vine out of Egypt you brought; you did drive out the nations, and plant her;
9 Thou madest roume for it, and didest cause it to take roote, and it filled the land.
in the ground you did clear she struck root, and she filled all the land.
10 The mountaines were couered with the shadowe of it, and the boughes thereof were like the goodly cedars.
The shade of her covered the mountains, her branches the cedars of God.
11 Shee stretched out her branches vnto the Sea, and her boughes vnto the Riuer.
She sent forth her shoots to the sea, and her branches as far as the River.
12 Why hast thou then broken downe her hedges, so that all they, which passe by the way, haue plucked her?
Why have you torn down her fences, and left her to be plucked at by all who pass by,
13 The wilde bore out of the wood hath destroyed it, and the wilde beastes of the fielde haue eaten it vp.
to be gnawed by the boar from the forest, and devoured by the beasts of the field?
14 Returne we beseech thee, O God of hostes: looke downe from heauen and beholde and visite this vine,
O God of hosts, return: look down from heaven and see and visit this vine, and restore her
15 And the vineyard, that thy right hand hath planted, and the young vine, which thou madest strong for thy selfe.
the vine which your right hand has planted.
16 It is burnt with fire and cut downe: and they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
She is burned with fire and cut down before your stern face they are perishing.
17 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.
Support the one you have chosen, the one you have raised for yourself;
18 So will not we goe backe from thee: reuiue thou vs, and we shall call vpon thy Name.
then from you we will never draw back. Preserve us, and we will call on your name.
19 Turne vs againe, O Lord God of hostes: cause thy face to shine and we shalbe saued.
Lord, God of hosts, restore us: Show us the light of your face, so we may be saved.
