Psalms 80
1 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;
To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim-eduth. Of Asaph. A Psalm. Give ear, O Keeper of Israel, guiding Joseph like a flock; you who have your seat on the winged ones, let your glory be seen.
2 before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasse, stir up your power, and come to deliver us.
Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, let your strength be awake from sleep, and come as our salvation.
3 Turn us, O God, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be delivered.
Take us back again, O God; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.
4 O Lord God of hosts, how long are you angry with the prayer of your servant?
O Lord God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your people?
5 You will feed us with bread of tears; and will cause us to drink tears by measure.
You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.
6 You has made us a strife to our neighbors; and our enemies have mocked at us.
You make us a cause of war among our neighbours; our haters are laughing at us among themselves.
7 Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved. (Pause)
Take us back again, O God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.
8 You have transplanted a vine out of Egypt: you have cast out the heathen, and planted it.
You took a vine out of Egypt: driving out the nations, and planting it in their land.
9 You made a way before it, and did cause its roots to strike, and the land was filled [with it].
You made ready a place for it, so that it might take deep root, and it sent out its branches over all the land.
10 Its shadow covered the mountains, and its shoots [equalled] the goodly cedars.
The mountains were covered with its shade, and the great trees with its branches.
11 It sent forth its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the river.
It sent out its arms to the Sea, and its branches to the River.
12 Therefore have you broken down its hedge, while all that pass by the way pluck it?
Why are its walls broken down by your hands, so that all who go by may take its fruit?
13 The boar out of the wood has laid it waste, and the wild beast has devoured it.
It is uprooted by the pigs from the woods, the beasts of the field get their food from it.
14 O God of hosts, turn, we pray you: look on [us] from heaven, and behold and visit this vine;
Come back, O God of armies: from heaven let your eyes be turned to this vine, and give your mind to it,
15 and restore that which your right hand has planted: and look on the son of man whom you did strengthen for yourself.
Even to the tree which was planted by your right hand, and to the branch which you made strong for yourself.
16 [It is] burnt with fire and dug up: they shall perish at the rebuke of your presence.
It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face.
17 Let your hand be upon the man of your right hand, and upon the son of man whom you did strengthen for yourself.
Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.
18 So will we not depart from you: you shall quicken us, and we will call upon your name.
So will we not be turned back from you; keep us in life, and we will give praise to your name.
19 Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and make your face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Take us back, O Lord God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.
