Psalms 80
1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you that lead Joseph like a flock; you that dwell between the cherubims, shine forth.
To the Overseer. — 'On the Lilies.' A testimony of Asaph. — A Psalm. Shepherd of Israel, give ear, Leading Joseph as a flock, Inhabiting the cherubs — shine forth,
2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up your strength, and come and save us.
Before Ephraim, and Benjamin, and Manasseh, Wake up Thy might, and come for our salvation.
3 Turn us again, O God, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved.
O God, cause us to turn back, And cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved.
4 O LORD God of hosts, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
Jehovah, God of Hosts, till when? Thou hast burned against the prayer of Thy people.
5 You feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink in great measure.
Thou hast caused them to eat bread of tears, And causest them to drink With tears a third time.
6 You make us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
Thou makest us a strife to our neighbours, And our enemies mock at it.
7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved.
God of Hosts, turn us back, And cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved.
8 You have brought a vine out of Egypt: you have cast out the heathen, and planted it.
A vine out of Egypt Thou dost bring, Thou dost cast out nations, and plantest it.
9 You prepared room before it, and did cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
Thou hast looked before it, and dost root it, And it filleth the land,
10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
Covered have been hills [with] its shadow, And its boughs [are] cedars of God.
11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
It sendeth forth its branches unto the sea, And unto the river its sucklings.
12 Why have you then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
Why hast Thou broken down its hedges, And all passing by the way have plucked it?
13 The boar out of the wood does waste it, and the wild beast of the field does devour it.
A boar out of the forest doth waste it, And a wild beast of the fields consumeth it.
14 Return, we plead to you, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
God of Hosts, turn back, we beseech Thee, Look from heaven, and see, and inspect this vine,
15 And the vineyard which your right hand has planted, and the branch that you made strong for yourself.
And the root that Thy right hand planted, And the branch Thou madest strong for Thee,
16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.
Burnt with fire — cut down, From the rebuke of Thy face they perish.
17 Let your hand be upon the man of your right hand, upon the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.
Let Thy hand be on the man of Thy right hand, On the son of man Thou hast strengthened for Thyself.
18 So will not we go back from you: quicken us, and we will call upon your name.
And we do not go back from Thee, Thou dost revive us, and in Thy name we call.
19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved.
O Jehovah, God of Hosts, turn us back, Cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved!
