Psalms 80

1 For the Leader; upon Shoshannim. A testimony. A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; Thou that art enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth.

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 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up Thy might, and come to save us.

before Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin. Stir up your mighty power, come to our help.

3 O God, restore us; and cause Thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

God, restore us: show us the light of your face, so we may be saved.

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

O Lord of hosts, how long is your anger to smoke, despite the prayer of your people?

5 Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

You have fed them with bread of tears, you have made them drink tears by the measure.

6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours; and our enemies mock as they please.

The scorn of our neighbors you make us, the laughing-stock of our foes.

7 O God of hosts, restore us; and cause Thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

God of hosts, restore us: show us the light of your face, so we may be saved.

8 Thou didst pluck up a vine out of Egypt; Thou didst drive out the nations, and didst plant it.

A vine out of Egypt you brought; you did drive out the nations, and plant her;

9 Thou didst clear a place before it, and it took deep root, and filled the land.

in the ground you did clear she struck root, and she filled all the land.

10 The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, and the mighty cedars with the boughs thereof.

The shade of her covered the mountains, her branches the cedars of God.

11 She sent out her branches unto the sea, and her shoots unto the River.

She sent forth her shoots to the sea, and her branches as far as the River.

12 Why hast Thou broken down her fences, so that all they that pass by the way do pluck her?

Why have you torn down her fences, and left her to be plucked at by all who pass by,

13 The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, that which moveth in the field feedeth on it.

to be gnawed by the boar from the forest, and devoured by the beasts of the field?

14 O God of hosts, return, we beseech Thee; look from heaven, and behold, and be mindful of this vine,

O God of hosts, return: look down from heaven and see and visit this vine, and restore her

15 And of the stock which Thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that Thou madest strong for Thyself.

the vine which your right hand has planted.

16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down; they perish at the rebuke of Thy countenance.

She is burned with fire and cut down before your stern face they are perishing.

17 Let Thy hand be upon the man of Thy right hand, upon the son of man whom Thou madest strong for Thyself.

Support the one you have chosen, the one you have raised for yourself;

18 So shall we not turn back from Thee; quicken Thou us, and we will call upon Thy name.

then from you we will never draw back. Preserve us, and we will call on your name.

19 O LORD God of hosts, restore us; cause Thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

Lord, God of hosts, restore us: Show us the light of your face, so we may be saved.