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 cherubims, shine forth.

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2. Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come [and] save us.

2. Listen, O shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit enthroned between the cherubim.

3. Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

3. Shine forth before Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasseh. Stir up your might and come to save us.

4. O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

4. Restore us, O God of hosts; make your face shine upon us, that we may be saved.

5. Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

5. O Lord of hosts, how long will your anger burn against the prayers of your people?

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

6. You have fed them with the bread of woe, and have given them tears to drink in their sorrow.

7. Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

7. You have made us the scorn of our neighbors and the laughingstock of our oppressors.

8. Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

8. Restore us, O God of hosts; make your face shine upon us, that we may be saved.

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

9. You had a vine you brought from Egypt. You drove nations out, to plant it in their land.

10. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof [were like] the goodly cedars.

10. On the ground that you cleared, it took root, and filled the land.

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

11. Its shade covered the mountains, its shoots went through the mighty cedars,

12. Why hast thou [then] broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

12. its branches reached out to the sea and its shoots to the River.

13. The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.

13. Why, then, have you broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pluck its fruits?

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

14. The beasts of the forest ravage it and all creatures of the field feed on it.

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

15. Turn again, O Lord of hosts, look down from heaven and see; care for this vine,

16. [It is] burned with fire, [it is] cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

16. and protect the stock your hand has planted.

17. Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man [whom] thou madest strong for thyself.

17. Let those who burned it down perish at your rebuke.

18. So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.

18. But lay your hand on your instrument, on the son of man whom you make strong for yourself.

19. Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

19. Then we will never turn away from you; give us life, and we will call on your name.

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20. Restore us, O Lord, God of hosts; make your face shine on us, that we may be saved.