Psalms 80
1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you that lead Joseph like a flock; you that dwell between the cherubim, shine forth.
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 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up your strength, and come and save us.
before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasse, stir up thy power, and come to deliver us.
3 Turn us again, O God, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Turn us, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be delivered.
4 O LORD God of hosts, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
O Lord God of hosts, how long art thou angry with the prayer of thy servant?
5 You feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink in great measure.
Thou wilt feed us with bread of tears; and wilt cause us to drink tears by measure.
6 You make us a strife to our neighbors: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
Thou has made us a strife to our neighbours; and our enemies have mocked at us.
7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. (Pause)
8 You have brought a vine out of Egypt: you have cast out the heathen, and planted it.
Thou hast transplanted a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
9 You prepared room before it, and did cause it to take deep root, and it 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 hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
Its shadow covered the mountains, and its shoots [equalled] the goodly cedars.
11 She sent out her boughs to the sea, and her branches to the river.
It sent forth its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the river.
12 Why have you then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
Wherefore hast thou broken down its hedge, while all that pass by the way pluck it?
13 The boar out of the wood does waste it, and the wild beast of the field does devour it.
The boar out of the wood has laid it waste, and the wild beast has devoured it.
14 Return, we beseech you, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
O God of hosts, turn, we pray thee: look on [us] from heaven, and behold and visit this vine;
15 And the vineyard which your right hand has planted, and the branch that you made strong for yourself.
and restore that which thy right hand has planted: and look on the son of man whom thou didst strengthen for thyself.
16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.
[It is] burnt with fire and dug up: they shall perish at the rebuke of thy presence.
17 Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.
Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, and upon the son of man whom thou didst strengthen for thyself.
18 So will not we go back from you: quicken us, and we will call on your name.
So will we not depart from thee: thou shalt quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and make thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
