Psalms 80

1 To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim-eduth, A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest [between] the cherubims, 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 thy 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 thy 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 wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

O Lord God of hosts, how long art thou angry with the prayer of thy servant?

5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest 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 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: 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 thy 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 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast 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 Thou preparedst [room] before it, and didst 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 unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.

It sent forth its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the river.

12 Why hast thou [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 doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.

The boar out of the wood has laid it waste, and the wild beast has devoured it.

14 Return, we beseech thee, 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 thy right hand hath planted, and the branch [that] thou madest strong for thyself.

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 thy countenance.

[It is] burnt with fire and dug up: they shall perish at the rebuke of thy presence.

17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man [whom] thou madest strong for thyself.

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 thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy 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 thy 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.