Psalm 80

Psalm 80

Prayer for Israel’s Restoration

To the leader: on Lilies, a Covenant. Of Asaph. A Psalm.

¹Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,

you who lead Joseph like a flock!

You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth^*

²before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh.

Stir up your might,

and come to save us!^*

³Restore us, O God;

let your face shine, that we may be saved.^*

⁴O Lord God of hosts,

how long will you be angry with your people’s prayers?^*

⁵You have fed them with the bread of tears

and given them tears to drink in full measure.^*

⁶You make us the scorn^k of our neighbors;

our enemies laugh among themselves.^*

⁷Restore us, O God of hosts;

let your face shine, that we may be saved.

⁸You brought a vine out of Egypt;

you drove out the nations and planted it.^*

⁹You cleared the ground for it;

it took deep root and filled the land.^*

¹⁰The mountains were covered with its shade,

the mighty cedars with its branches;

¹¹it sent out its branches to the sea

and its shoots to the River.

¹²Why then have you broken down its walls,

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

¹³The boar from the forest ravages it,

and all that move in the field feed on it.^*

¹⁴Turn again, O God of hosts;

look down from heaven and see;

have regard for this vine,^*

¹⁵the stock that your right hand planted.^l

¹⁶It has been burned with fire; it has been cut down;

may they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.^*

¹⁷But let your hand be upon the one at your right hand,

the one whom you made strong for yourself.^*

¹⁸Then we will never turn back from you;

give us life, and we will call on your name.^*

¹⁹Restore us, O Lord God of hosts;

let your face shine, that we may be saved.