Psalms 80
1 [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.
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 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!
before Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin. Stir up your mighty power, come to our help.
3 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.]
God, restore us: show us the light of your face, so we may be saved.
4 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?
O Lord of hosts, how long is your anger to smoke, despite the prayer of your people?
5 [It is as though] the only food and drink that you have given us is a cup full of our tears!
You have fed them with bread of tears, you have made them drink tears by the measure.
6 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.
The scorn of our neighbours you make us, the laughing-stock of our foes.
7 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!
God of hosts, restore us: show us the light of your face, so we may be saved.
8 [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.
A vine out of Egypt you brought; you did drive out the nations, and plant her;
9 [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].
in the ground you did clear she struck root, and she filled all the land.
10 [Like huge] grapevines cover the hills with their shade and their branches are taller than big cedar [trees] [MET, HYP],
The shade of her covered the mountains, her branches the cedars of God.
11 [your people ruled all of Canaan], from the [Mediterranean] Sea [in the west] to the [Euphrates] River [in the east].
She sent forth her shoots to the sea, and her branches as far as the River.
12 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,
Why have you torn down her fences, and left her to be plucked at by all who pass by,
13 and wild pigs [can] trample [the vines], and wild animals [can also] eat [the grapes].
to be gnawed by the boar from the forest, and devoured by the beasts of the field?
14 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,
O God of hosts, return: look down from heaven and see and visit this vine, and restore her
15 who are [like] the young vine that you [SYN] planted and caused to grow!
the vine which your right hand has planted.
16 Our enemies have torn down and burned everything in our land; look at them angrily and get rid of them!
She is burned with fire and cut down before your stern face they are perishing.
17 But strengthen [us] people whom you have chosen [IDM], [us] Israeli people whom you [previously] caused to be very strong.
Support the one you have chosen, the one you have raised for yourself;
18 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.
then from you we will never draw back. Preserve us, and we will call on your name.
19 Yahweh, commander of the armies of heaven, restore us; be kind to us in order that we may be rescued [from our enemies]!
Lord, God of hosts, restore us: Show us the light of your face, so we may be saved.
