Psalms 80
1 “For the leader of the music. Upon the Shushan-Eduth. A psalm of Asaph.” Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel! Thou who leadest Joseph like a flock, Thou who sittest between the cherubs, 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 Bring us back, O God! And cause thy face to shine, that we may 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 For thou causest them to eat the bread of tears, And givest them tears to drink, in full measure.
Thou wilt feed us with bread of tears; and wilt cause us to drink tears by measure.
6 Thou hast made us the object of strife to our neighbors, And our enemies hold us in derision.
Thou has made us a strife to our neighbours; and our enemies have mocked at us.
7 Bring us back, O God of hosts! And cause thy face to shine that we may be saved!
Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. (Pause)
8 Thou didst bring a vine out of Egypt; Thou didst expel the nations, and plant it.
Thou hast transplanted a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
9 Thou didst prepare a place for it; It spread its roots, and 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 mountains were covered with its shade, And its branches were like the cedars of God.
Its shadow covered the mountains, and its shoots [equalled] the goodly cedars.
11 It sent out its boughs to the sea, And its branches to the river.
It sent forth its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the river.
12 Why hast thou now broken down its hedges, So that all who pass by do pluck from it?
Wherefore hast thou broken down its hedge, while all that pass by the way pluck it?
13 The boar from the wood doth waste it, And the wild beast of the forest doth devour it.
The boar out of the wood has laid it waste, and the wild beast has devoured it.
14 O God of hosts! return, we beseech thee, Look down from heaven, and behold, And have regard to this vine!
O God of hosts, turn, we pray thee: look on [us] from heaven, and behold and visit this vine;
15 Protect what thy right hand planted; The branch which 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 burnt with fire; it is cut down; Under thy rebuke they perish.
[It is] burnt with fire and dug up: they shall perish at the rebuke of thy presence.
17 May thy hand be over the man of thy right hand, The 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 we no more turn back from thee: Revive us, and upon thy name alone will we call!
So will we not depart from thee: thou shalt quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
19 Bring us back, O LORD, God of hosts! And cause thy face to shine, that we may he saved!
Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and make thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
