Psalms 80

1 To the chief Musician upon Shoshannimeduth, A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubim, shine forth.

For the end, for alternate [strains], a testimony for Asaph, a Psalm concerning the Assyrian. Attend, O Shepherd of Israel, who guide Joseph like a flock; you who sit upon the cherubs, manifest yourself;

2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.

before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasse, stir up your power, and come to deliver us.

3 Restore us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

Turn us, O God, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be delivered.

4 O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

O Lord God of hosts, how long are you angry with the prayer of your servant?

5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

You will feed us with bread of tears; and will cause us to drink tears by measure.

6 Thou makest us a strife to our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

You has made us a strife to our neighbours; and our enemies have mocked at us.

7 Restore us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved. (Pause)

8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

You have transplanted a vine out of Egypt: you have cast out the heathen, and planted it.

9 Thou didst prepare room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

You made a way before it, and did cause its roots to strike, and the land was filled [with it].

10 The hills were covered with its shadow, and its boughs were like the goodly cedars.

Its shadow covered the mountains, and its shoots [equalled] the goodly cedars.

11 She sent out her boughs to the sea, and her branches to the river.

It sent forth its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the river.

12 Why hast thou then broke down her hedges, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck her?

Therefore have you broken down its hedge, while all that pass by the way pluck it?

13 The boar from the forest doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.

The boar out of the wood has laid it waste, and the wild beast has devoured it.

14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;

O God of hosts, turn, we pray you: look on [us] from heaven, and behold and visit this vine;

15 And the vineyard which thy right hand planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.

and restore that which your right hand has planted: and look on the son of man whom you did strengthen for yourself.

16 It is burnt with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

[It is] burnt with fire and dug up: they shall perish at the rebuke of your presence.

17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.

Let your hand be upon the man of your right hand, and upon the son of man whom you did strengthen for yourself.

18 So will we not go back from thee: revive us, and we will call upon thy name.

So will we not depart from you: you shall quicken us, and we will call upon your name.

19 Restore us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and make your face to shine; and we shall be saved.