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 forth.

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

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

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

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

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

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 large measure.

Thou wilt feed us with bread of tears; and wilt cause us to drink tears by measure.

6 You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies have mocked us.

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

7 Restore us, God of hosts. Cause your face to shine, 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 the nations, and planted it.

Thou hast transplanted 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 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 shadow. Its boughs were like God's cedars.

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

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

Wherefore hast thou broken down its hedge, while all that pass by the way pluck it?

13 The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.

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

14 Return, we beg you, God of hosts. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,

O God of hosts, turn, we pray thee: look on [us] 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 restore that which thy right hand has planted: and look on the son of man whom thou didst strengthen for thyself.

16 It's burned with fire. It's cut down. They perish at your rebuke.

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

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, and upon the son of man whom thou didst strengthen for thyself.

18 So 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 Restore us, LORD God of hosts. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

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