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;
For the Leader; upon Shoshannim. A testimony. A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; Thou that art enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth.
2 before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasse, stir up your power, and come to deliver us.
Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, 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.
O God, restore us; and cause Thy face to shine, 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 people?
5 You will feed us with bread of tears; and will cause us to drink tears by measure.
Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
6 You has made us a strife to our neighbors; and our enemies have mocked at us.
Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours; and our enemies mock as they please.
7 Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved. (Pause)
O God of hosts, restore us; and cause Thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
8 You have transplanted a vine out of Egypt: you have cast out the heathen, and planted it.
Thou didst pluck up a vine out of Egypt; Thou didst drive out the nations, and didst plant it.
9 You made a way before it, and did cause its roots to strike, and the land was filled [with it].
Thou didst clear a place before it, and it took deep root, and filled the land.
10 Its shadow covered the mountains, and its shoots [equalled] the goodly cedars.
The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, and the mighty cedars with the boughs thereof.
11 It sent forth its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the river.
She sent out her branches unto the sea, and her shoots 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 her fences, so that all they that pass by the way do pluck her?
13 The boar out of the wood has laid it waste, and the wild beast has devoured it.
The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, that which moveth in the field feedeth on it.
14 O God of hosts, turn, we pray you: look on [us] from heaven, and behold and visit this vine;
O God of hosts, return, we beseech Thee; look from heaven, and behold, and be mindful of this vine,
15 and restore that which your right hand has planted: and look on the son of man whom you did strengthen for yourself.
And of the stock which Thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that Thou madest strong for Thyself.
16 [It is] burnt with fire and dug up: they shall perish at the rebuke of your presence.
It is burned with fire, it is cut down; they 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, upon the son of man whom Thou madest strong for Thyself.
18 So will we not depart from you: you shall quicken us, and we will call upon your name.
So shall we not turn back from Thee; quicken Thou 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, restore us; cause Thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
