Psalms 80

1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you that lead Joseph like a flock; you that dwell between the cherubims, shine forth.

TO THE OVERSEER. [SET] TO “LILIES OF TESTIMONY.” A PSALM OF ASAPH. Shepherd of Israel, give ear, Leading Joseph as a flock, Inhabiting the cherubim—shine forth,

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

Before Ephraim, and Benjamin, and Manasseh, Wake up Your might, and come for our salvation.

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

O God, cause us to turn back, And cause Your face to shine, and we are saved.

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

YHWH, God of Hosts, until when? You have burned against the prayer of Your people.

5 You feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink in great measure.

You have caused them to eat bread of tears, And cause them to drink With tears a third time.

6 You make us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

You make us a strife to our neighbors, And our enemies mock at it.

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

God of Hosts, turn us back, And cause Your face to shine, and we are saved.

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

You bring a vine out of Egypt, You cast out nations, and plant it.

9 You prepared room before it, and did cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

You have looked before it, and root it, And it fills the land,

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

Hills have been covered [with] its shadow, And its boughs [are] cedars of God.

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

It sends forth its branches to the sea, And its shoots to the river.

12 Why have you then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

Why have You broken down its hedges, And everyone passing by the way has plucked it?

13 The boar out of the wood does waste it, and the wild beast of the field does devour it.

A boar out of the forest tears it, And a wild beast of the fields grazes it.

14 Return, we plead to you, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;

God of Hosts, turn back, we implore You, Look from the heavens, and see, and inspect this vine,

15 And the vineyard which your right hand has planted, and the branch that you made strong for yourself.

And the root that Your right hand planted, And the branch You made strong for Yourself,

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

Burned with fire—cut down, They perish from the rebuke of Your face.

17 Let your hand be upon the man of your right hand, upon the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.

Let Your hand be on the man of Your right hand On the son of man You have strengthened for Yourself.

18 So will not we go back from you: quicken us, and we will call upon your name.

And we do not go back from You, You revive us, and in Your Name we call.

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

O YHWH, God of Hosts, turn us back, Cause Your face to shine, and we are saved!