Psalms 80
1 For the chief musician, set to the Shoshannim Eduth style. A psalm of Asaph. Pay attention, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock; you who sit above the cherubim, shine on us!
For the end, for alternate [strains], a testimony for Asaph, a Psalm concerning the Assyrian. Attend, O Shepherd of Israel, who guidest Joseph like a flock; thou who sittest upon the cherubs, manifest thyself;
2 In the sight of Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your power; come and save us.
before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasse, stir up thy power, and come to deliver us.
3 God, restore us; make your face shine on us, and we will be saved.
Turn us, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be delivered.
4 Yahweh God of hosts, how long will you be angry at your people when they pray?
O Lord God of hosts, how long art thou angry with the prayer of thy servant?
5 You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in great quantities.
Thou wilt feed us with bread of tears; and wilt cause us to drink tears by measure.
6 You make us something for our neighbors to argue over, and our enemies laugh about us among themselves.
Thou has made us a strife to our neighbours; and our enemies have mocked at us.
7 God of hosts, restore us; make your face shine on us, and we will be saved.
Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. (Pause)
8 You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out nations and transplanted it.
Thou hast transplanted a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
9 You cleared the land for it; it took root and filled the land.
Thou madest a way before it, and didst cause its roots to strike, and the land was filled [with it].
10 The mountains were covered with its shade, the cedars of God by its branches.
Its shadow covered the mountains, and its shoots [equalled] the goodly cedars.
11 It sent out its branches as far as the sea and its shoots to the Euphrates River.
It sent forth its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the river.
12 Why have you broken down its walls so that all who pass by along the road pluck its fruit?
Wherefore hast thou broken down its hedge, while all that pass by the way pluck it?
13 The boars out of the forest ruin it, and the beasts of the field feed on it.
The boar out of the wood has laid it waste, and the wild beast has devoured it.
14 Turn back, God of hosts; look down from heaven and take notice and take care of this vine.
O God of hosts, turn, we pray thee: look on [us] from heaven, and behold and visit this vine;
15 This is the root that your right hand planted, the shoot that you made to grow.
and restore that which thy right hand has planted: and look on the son of man whom thou didst strengthen for thyself.
16 It has been burned and cut down; they perish because of your rebuke.
[It is] burnt with fire and dug up: they shall perish at the rebuke of thy presence.
17 May your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.
Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, and upon the son of man whom thou didst strengthen for thyself.
18 Then we will not turn away from you; revive us, and we will call on your name.
So will we not depart from thee: thou shalt quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
19 Yahweh God of hosts, restore us; make your face shine on us, and we will be saved.
Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and make thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
