< Psalms 80 >

1 To the Chief Musician. For "the Lilies of Testimony." Asaph’s. A Melody. O Shepherd of Israel, give ear, Thou who leddest forth Joseph like a rock, Thou who art throned on the cherubim, appear!
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 Manasseh, stir up thy strength, And come! to our salvation.
before Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin. Stir up your mighty power, come to our help.
3 O God, bring us back, And light up thy face, That we may be saved.
God, restore us: show us the light of your face, so we may be saved.
4 O Yahweh, God of hosts! How long hast thou been wroth with the prayer of thy people?
O Lord of hosts, how long is your anger to smoke, despite the prayer of your people?
5 Thou hast fed them with the food of tears, And hast caused them to drink the water of weeping in threefold abundance.
You have fed them with bread of tears, you have made them drink tears by the measure.
6 Thou dost make us an object of contention to our neighbours, And, our foes, find mockery for themselves.
The scorn of our neighbors you make us, the laughing-stock of our foes.
7 O God of hosts, bring us back, And light up thy face, That we may be saved.
God of hosts, restore us: show us the light of your face, so we may be saved.
8 A vine out of Egypt, thou didst remove, Thou didst cast out nations, and plant it;
A vine out of Egypt you brought; you did drive out the nations, and plant her;
9 Thou didst make a clear space before it, So it rooted well its roots, and filled up the land;
in the ground you did clear she struck root, and she filled all the land.
10 Covered were the mountains with its shade, And, with its boughs, the mighty cedars.
The shade of her covered the mountains, her branches the cedars of God.
11 It thrust forth its branches as far as the sea, —And, unto the River, its shoots.
She sent forth her shoots to the sea, and her branches as far as the River.
12 Wherefore hast thou broken down its fences, So that all who pass along the way, pluck its fruit?
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 forest, browseth upon it, And, the wild beast of the field, pastureth thereon.
to be gnawed by the boar from the forest, and devoured by the beasts of the field?
14 O God of hosts, return, we pray thee, —Look down out of the heavens, and see, And inspect this vine:
O God of hosts, return: look down from heaven and see and visit this vine, and restore her
15 Yea the stock which thy right hand planted, Even upon the son thou didst secure for thyself.
the vine which your right hand has planted.
16 To be burned with fire, it is cut down, —At the rebuke of thy countenance, they will perish.
She is burned with fire and cut down before your stern face they are perishing.
17 Let thy hand be, Upon the Man of thy right hand, Upon the Son of Man thou didst secure for thyself;
Support the one you have chosen, the one you have raised for yourself;
18 So will we not draw back from thee, Thou wilt bring us to life, And, on thy Name, will we call.
then from you we will never draw back. Preserve us, and we will call on your name.
19 O Yahweh, God of hosts! bring us back, Light up thy face, That we may be saved.
Lord, God of hosts, restore us: Show us the light of your face, so we may be saved.

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