Psalms 80

1 To the chief Musician upon Shoshannimeduth, A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between 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 strength, and come and save us.

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

3 Restore us again, O God, 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 feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

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

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

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

7 Restore us again, O God of hosts, 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 hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

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

9 Thou didst prepare room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

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

10 The hills were covered with its shadow, and its boughs were like the goodly cedars.

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

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

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

12 Why hast thou then broke down her hedges, so that all they who 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 from the forest doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.

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

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

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

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

the vine which your right hand has planted.

16 It is burnt 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 will we not go back from thee: revive 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 Restore us again, O LORD God of hosts, 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.