The Psalms

Psalm 80

For the Chief Musician, set to Shoshanim Eduth.. A Psalm of Asaph.

 ^80:1Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,

 Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock;

 Thou that sittest above the cherubim, shine forth.

 ^80:2Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy might,

 And come to save us.

 ^80:3Turn us again, O God;

 And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

  ^80:4O Jehovah God of hosts,

 How long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

 ^80:5Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears,

 And given them tears to drink in large measure.

 ^80:6Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors;

 And our enemies laugh among themselves.

 ^80:7Turn us again, O God of hosts;

 And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

 ^80:8Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt:

 Thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst it.

 ^80:9Thou preparedst room before it,

 And it took deep root, and filled the land.

 ^80:10The mountains were covered with the shadow of it,

 And the boughs thereof were like cedars of God.

 ^80:11It sent out its branches unto the sea,

 And its shoots unto the River.

 ^80:12Why hast thou broken down its walls,

 So that all they that pass by the way do pluck it?

 ^80:13The boar out of the wood doth ravage it,

 And the wild beasts of the field feed on it.

 ^80:14Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts:

 Look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine,

 ^80:15And the stock which thy right hand planted,

 And the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.

 ^80:16It is burned with fire, it is cut down:

 They perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

 ^80:17Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand,

 Upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.

 ^80:18So shall we not go back from thee:

 Quicken thou us, and we will call upon thy name.

 ^80:19Turn us again, O Jehovah God of hosts;

 Cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.