Psalms 80

1 to/for to conduct to(wards) lily testimony to/for Asaph melody to pasture Israel to listen [emph?] to lead like/as flock Joseph to dwell [the] cherub to shine [emph?]

[Yahweh], you [who lead us like] a shepherd leads his flock [of sheep], listen to us Israeli people. You sit on your throne [in the Very Holy Place in the temple], above the [carvings of] winged creatures.

2 to/for face: before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh to rouse [emph?] [obj] might your and to go: come [emph?] to/for salvation to/for us

Show yourself to [the people of the tribes of] Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh! Show us that you are powerful and come and rescue us!

3 God to return: rescue us and to light face your and to save

God, cause our nation to be strong like it was before; be kind to us [IDM] in order that we may be saved [from our enemies.]

4 LORD God Hosts till how be angry in/on/with prayer people your

Yahweh, you who are the commander of the armies of heaven, how long will you be angry with us, your people, when we pray to you?

5 to eat them food: bread tears and to water: drink them in/on/with tears third

[It is as though] the only food and drink that you have given us is a cup full of our tears!

6 to set: make us strife to/for neighboring our and enemy our to mock to/for them

You have allowed the people-groups that surround us to fight with [each other to decide which part of our land each of them will take]; our enemies laugh at us.

7 God Hosts to return: rescue us and to light face your and to save

God, commander of the armies of heaven, cause our nation to be strong like it was before! Be kind to us in order that we may be saved!

8 vine from Egypt to set out to drive out: drive out nation and to plant her

[Our ancestors were like] a grapevine [MET] that you brought out of Egypt; you expelled the other people-groups [from this land], and you put your people in their land.

9 to turn to/for face: before her and to uproot root her and to fill land: country/planet

[Like people] clear ground to plant a grapevine [MET], [you cleared out the people who were living in this land for us to live in it]. [Like] the roots of a grapevine go deep down into the ground and spread [MET], [you enabled our ancestors to prosper and start living in towns all over this land].

10 to cover mountain: mount shadow her and branch her cedar God

[Like huge] grapevines cover the hills with their shade and their branches are taller than big cedar [trees] [MET, HYP],

11 to send: depart foliage her till sea and to(wards) River shoot her

[your people ruled all of Canaan], from the [Mediterranean] Sea [in the west] to the [Euphrates] River [in the east].

12 to/for what? to break through wall her and to pluck her all to pass way: road

So why have you abandoned us and [allowed our enemies to] tear down our walls [RHQ]? [You are like] someone who tears down the fences [around his vineyard], with the result that all [the people] who pass by [can] steal the grapes,

13 to tear off her swine from wood and creature field to pasture her

and wild pigs [can] trample [the vines], and wild animals [can also] eat [the grapes].

14 God Hosts to return: again please to look from heaven and to see: see and to reckon: visit vine this

You who are the commander of the armies of heaven, (turn to/stop abandoning) us! Look down from heaven and see [what is happening to] us! Come and rescue [us who are like] [MET] your grapevine,

15 and shoot which to plant right your and upon son: child to strengthen to/for you

who are [like] the young vine that you [SYN] planted and caused to grow!

16 to burn in/on/with fire to cut from rebuke face your to perish

Our enemies have torn down and burned everything in our land; look at them angrily and get rid of them!

17 to be hand: power your upon man right your upon son: child man to strengthen to/for you

But strengthen [us] people whom you have chosen [IDM], [us] Israeli people whom you [previously] caused to be very strong.

18 and not to turn from you to live us and in/on/with name your to call: call to

When you do that, we will never turn away from you again; (revive us/cause us to be again like we were previously), and [then] we will praise/worship you.

19 LORD God Hosts to return: rescue us to light face your and to save

Yahweh, commander of the armies of heaven, restore us; be kind to us in order that we may be rescued [from our enemies]!