Psalms 80

1 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

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” A Psalm of Asaph. Hear us, O Shepherd of Israel, who leads Joseph like a flock; You who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth

2 before Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin. Stir up your mighty power, come to our help.

before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Rally Your mighty power and come to save us.

3 God, restore us: show us the light of your face, so we may be saved.

Restore us, O God, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.

4 O Lord of hosts, how long is your anger to smoke, despite the prayer of your people?

O LORD God of Hosts, how long will Your anger smolder against the prayers of Your people?

5 You have fed them with bread of tears, you have made them drink tears by the measure.

You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.

6 The scorn of our neighbours you make us, the laughing-stock of our foes.

You make us contend with our neighbors; our enemies mock us.

7 God of hosts, restore us: show us the light of your face, so we may be saved.

Restore us, O God of Hosts, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.

8 A vine out of Egypt you brought; you did drive out the nations, and plant her;

You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.

9 in the ground you did clear she struck root, and she filled all the land.

You cleared the ground for it, and it took root and filled the land.

10 The shade of her covered the mountains, her branches the cedars of God.

The mountains were covered by its shade, and the mighty cedars with its branches.

11 She sent forth her shoots to the sea, and her branches as far as the River.

It sent out its branches to the Sea, and its shoots toward the River.

12 Why have you torn down her fences, and left her to be plucked at by all who pass by,

Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?

13 to be gnawed by the boar from the forest, and devoured by the beasts of the field?

The boar from the forest ravages it, and the creatures of the field feed upon it.

14 O God of hosts, return: look down from heaven and see and visit this vine, and restore her

Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine—

15 the vine which your right hand has planted.

the root Your right hand has planted, the son You have raised up for Yourself.

16 She is burned with fire and cut down before your stern face they are perishing.

Your vine has been cut down and burned; they perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.

17 Support the one you have chosen, the one you have raised for yourself;

Let Your hand be upon the man at Your right hand, on the son of man You have raised up for Yourself.

18 then from you we will never draw back. Preserve us, and we will call on your name.

Then we will not turn away from You; revive us, and we will call on Your name.

19 Lord, God of hosts, restore us: Show us the light of your face, so we may be saved.

Restore us, O LORD God of Hosts; cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.