Psalms 80
1 For the end, for alternate [strains], a testimony for Asaph, a Psalm concerning the Assyrian. Attend, O Shepherd of Israel, who guide Joseph like a flock; you who sit upon the cherubs, manifest yourself;
Unto the end, for them that shall he changed, a testimony for Asaph, a psalm. Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep. Thou that sittest upon the cherubims, shine forth
2 before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasse, stir up your power, and come to deliver us.
Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses. Stir up thy might, and come to save us.
3 Turn us, O God, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be delivered.
Convert us, O God: and shew us thy face, and we shall be saved.
4 O Lord God of hosts, how long are you angry with the prayer of your servant?
O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy servant?
5 You will feed us with bread of tears; and will cause us to drink tears by measure.
How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: and give us for our drink tears in measure?
6 You has made us a strife to our neighbors; and our enemies have mocked at us.
Thou hast made us to be a contradiction to our neighbours: and our enemies have scoffed at us.
7 Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved. (Pause)
O God of hosts, convert us: and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.
8 You have transplanted a vine out of Egypt: you have cast out the heathen, and planted it.
Thou hast brought a vineyard out of Egypt: thou hast cast cut the Gentiles and planted it.
9 You made a way before it, and did cause its roots to strike, and the land was filled [with it].
Thou wast the guide of its journey in its sight: thou plantedst the roots thereof, and it filled the land.
10 Its shadow covered the mountains, and its shoots [equalled] the goodly cedars.
The shadow of it covered the hills: and the branches thereof the cedars of God.
11 It sent forth its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the river.
It stretched forth its branches unto the sea, and its boughs unto the river.
12 Therefore have you broken down its hedge, while all that pass by the way pluck it?
Why hast thou broken down the hedge thereof, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck it?
13 The boar out of the wood has laid it waste, and the wild beast has devoured it.
The boar out of the wood hath laid it waste: and a singular wild beast hath devoured it.
14 O God of hosts, turn, we pray you: look on [us] from heaven, and behold and visit this vine;
Turn again, O God of hosts, look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vineyard:
15 and restore that which your right hand has planted: and look on the son of man whom you did strengthen for yourself.
And perfect the same which thy right hand hath planted: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.
16 [It is] burnt with fire and dug up: they shall perish at the rebuke of your presence.
Things set on fire and dug down shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
17 Let your hand be upon the man of your right hand, and upon the son of man whom you did strengthen for yourself.
Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.
18 So will we not depart from you: you shall quicken us, and we will call upon your name.
And we depart not from thee, thou shalt quicken us: and we will call upon thy name.
19 Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and make your face to shine; and we shall be saved.
O Lord God of hosts, convert us: and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.
