Restore Us, O God

80 To the choirmaster: according to eLilies. A Testimony. Of fAsaph, a Psalm.

1  Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,

you who lead gJoseph like ha flock.

You who are ienthroned upon the cherubim, jshine forth.

2  Before kEphraim and Benjamin and Manasseh,

lstir up your might

and mcome to save us!

3  nRestore us,1 O God;

olet your face shine, that we may be saved!

4  O pLord God of hosts,

qhow long will you be angry with your people’s prayers?

5  You have fed them with rthe bread of tears

and given them tears to drink in full measure.

6  sYou make us an object of contention for our sneighbors,

and our enemies laugh among themselves.

7  nRestore us, O God of hosts;

let your face shine, that we may be saved!

8  You brought ta vine out of Egypt;

you udrove out the nations and planted it.

9  You vcleared the ground for it;

it took deep root and filled the land.

10  The mountains were covered with its shade,

the mighty cedars with its branches.

11  It sent out its branches to wthe sea

and its shoots to wthe River.2

12  Why then have you xbroken down its walls,

so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?

13  yThe boar from the forest ravages it,

and all that move in the field feed on it.

14  Turn again, O God of hosts!

zLook down from heaven, and see;

have regard for this vine,

15  the stock that your right hand planted,

and for the son whom you made strong for yourself.

16  They have aburned it with fire; they have acut it down;

may they perish at bthe rebuke of your face!

17  But clet your hand be on the man of your right hand,

the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself!

18  Then we shall not turn back from you;

dgive us life, and we will call upon your name!

19  eRestore us, O Lord God of hosts!

Let your face shine, that we may be saved!