Psalm 80

PSALM 80

To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Testimony of Asaph. A Psalm.

¹Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,

thou who leadest Joseph like a flock!

Thou who art enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth

²before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh!

Stir up thy might,

and come to save us!

³Restore us, O God;

let thy face shine, that we may be saved!

⁴O Lord God of hosts,

how long wilt thou be angry with thy people’s prayers?

⁵Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears,

and given them tears to drink in full measure.

⁶Thou dost make us the scorn of our neighbors;

and our enemies laugh among themselves.

⁷Restore us, O God of hosts;

let thy face shine, that we may be saved!

⁸Thou didst bring a vine out of Egypt;

thou didst drive out the nations and plant it.

⁹Thou didst clear 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 hast thou 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 which thy right hand planted.

¹⁶They have burned it with fire, they have cut it down;

may they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance!

¹⁷But let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand,

the son of man whom thou hast made strong for thyself!

¹⁸Then we will never turn back from thee;

give us life, and we will call on thy name!

¹⁹Restore us, O Lord God of hosts!

let thy face shine, that we may be saved!