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. On shoshannim, eduth. Of Asaph, a psalm. Listen, Shepherd of Israel, who leads Joseph like a flock of sheep; from your throne on the cherubs shine forth
2 before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasse, stir up your power, and come to deliver us.
before Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin. Stir up your mighty power, come to our help.
3 Turn us, O God, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be delivered.
God, restore us: show us the light of your face, so we may be saved.
4 O Lord God of hosts, how long are you angry with the prayer of your servant?
O Lord of hosts, how long is your anger to smoke, despite the prayer of your people?
5 You will feed us with bread of tears; and will cause us to drink tears by measure.
You have fed them with bread of tears, you have made them drink tears by the measure.
6 You has made us a strife to our neighbors; and our enemies have mocked at us.
The scorn of our neighbours you make us, the laughing-stock of our foes.
7 Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved. (Pause)
God of hosts, restore us: show us the light of your face, so we may be saved.
8 You have transplanted a vine out of Egypt: you have cast out the heathen, and planted it.
A vine out of Egypt you brought; you did drive out the nations, and plant her;
9 You made a way before it, and did cause its roots to strike, and the land was filled [with it].
in the ground you did clear she struck root, and she filled all the land.
10 Its shadow covered the mountains, and its shoots [equalled] the goodly cedars.
The shade of her covered the mountains, her branches the cedars of God.
11 It sent forth its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the river.
She sent forth her shoots to the sea, and her branches as far as the River.
12 Therefore have you broken down its hedge, while all that pass by the way pluck it?
Why have you torn down her fences, and left her to be plucked at by all who pass by,
13 The boar out of the wood has laid it waste, and the wild beast has devoured it.
to be gnawed by the boar from the forest, and devoured by the beasts of the field?
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: look down from heaven and see and visit this vine, and restore her
15 and restore that which your right hand has planted: and look on the son of man whom you did strengthen for yourself.
the vine which your right hand has planted.
16 [It is] burnt with fire and dug up: they shall perish at the rebuke of your presence.
She is burned with fire and cut down before your stern face they are perishing.
17 Let your hand be upon the man of your right hand, and upon the son of man whom you did strengthen for yourself.
Support the one you have chosen, the one you have raised for yourself;
18 So will we not depart from you: you shall quicken us, and we will call upon your name.
then from you we will never draw back. Preserve us, and we will call on your name.
19 Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and make your face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Lord, God of hosts, restore us: Show us the light of your face, so we may be saved.
