Psalms 80

1 For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” A Psalm by Asaph. Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.

GIVE ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.

2 Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us!

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

3 Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

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

4 LORD God of Armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

O Lord God of hosts, 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 large measure.

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

6 You make us a source of contention to our neighbours. Our enemies laugh amongst themselves.

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

7 Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

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

8 You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.

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

9 You cleared the ground for it. It took deep 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 shadow. Its boughs were like God’s cedars.

The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.

11 It sent out its branches to the sea, its shoots to the 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 those who pass by the way pluck it?

Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

13 The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals 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 again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,

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

15 the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself.

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

16 It’s burnt with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke.

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

17 Let 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 So 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 Turn us again, LORD God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

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