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!
Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.
2 In the sight of Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your power; come and save us.
Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.
3 God, restore us; make your face shine on us, and we will be saved.
Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
4 Yahweh God of hosts, how long will you be angry at your people when they pray?
O Yhwh God of Armies, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
5 You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in great quantities.
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
6 You make us something for our neighbors to argue over, and our enemies laugh about us among themselves.
Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
7 God of hosts, restore us; make your face shine on us, and we will be saved.
Turn us again, O God of Armies, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
8 You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out nations and transplanted it.
Thou hast brought 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 preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
10 The mountains were covered with its shade, the cedars of God by its branches.
The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
11 It sent out its branches as far as the sea and its shoots to the Euphrates River.
She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
12 Why have you broken down its walls so that all who pass by along the road pluck its fruit?
Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
13 The boars out of the forest ruin it, and the beasts of the field feed on it.
The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
14 Turn back, God of hosts; look down from heaven and take notice and take care of this vine.
Return, we beseech thee, O God of Armies: look down 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 the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
16 It has been burned and cut down; they perish because of your rebuke.
It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
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, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
18 Then we will not turn away from you; revive us, and we will call on your name.
So will not we go back from thee: 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 again, O Yhwh God of Armies, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
