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 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!

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

Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy strength, And come and save us!

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

Bring us back, O God! And cause thy face to shine, 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 wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

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

For thou causest them to eat the bread of tears, And givest them tears to drink, in full measure.

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

Thou hast made us the object of strife to our neighbors, And our enemies hold us in derision.

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

Bring us back, O God of hosts! And cause thy face to shine that we may be saved!

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

Thou didst bring a vine out of Egypt; Thou didst expel the nations, and plant it.

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

Thou didst prepare a place for it; It spread its roots, and filled the land.

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

The mountains were covered with its shade, And its branches were like the cedars of God.

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

It sent out its boughs to the sea, And its branches to the river.

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

Why hast thou now broken down its hedges, So that all who pass by do pluck from it?

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

The boar from the wood doth waste it, And the wild beast of the forest doth devour it.

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

O God of hosts! return, we beseech thee, Look down from heaven, and behold, And have regard to this vine!

15 the vine which your right hand has planted.

Protect what thy right hand planted; The branch which thou madest strong for thyself!

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

It is burnt with fire; it is cut down; Under thy rebuke they perish.

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

May thy hand be over the man of thy right hand, The man whom thou madest strong for thyself!

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

So will we no more turn back from thee: Revive us, and upon thy name alone will we call!

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

Bring us back, O LORD, God of hosts! And cause thy face to shine, that we may he saved!