Psalms 80

Psalm title: To the chief Musician. On Shoshannim-Eduth. Of Asaph. A Psalm.

1. ¹Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that sittest [supplied: between] the cherubim, shine forth.
2. ²Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy strength, and come to our deliverance.
3. ³O God, restore us; and cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
4. ⁴Jehovah, God of hosts, how long will thine anger smoke against the prayer of thy people?
5. ⁵Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure:
6. ⁶Thou hast made us a strife unto our neighbours, and our enemies mock among themselves.
7. ⁷Restore us, O God of hosts; and cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
8. ⁸Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt; thou didst cast out the nations, and plant it:
9. ⁹Thou preparedst space before it, and it took deep root, and filled the land;
10. ¹⁰The mountains were covered with its shadow, and the branches thereof were [supplied: like] cedars of God;
11. ¹¹It sent out its boughs unto the sea, and its shoots unto the river.
12. ¹²Why hast thou broken down its fences, so that all who pass by the way do pluck it?
13. ¹³The boar out of the forest doth waste it, and the beast of the field doth feed off it.
14. ¹⁴O God of hosts, return, we beseech thee; look down from the heavens, and behold, and visit this vine;
15. ¹⁵Even the stock which thy right hand hath planted, and the young plant thou madest strong for thyself.
16. ¹⁶It is burned with fire, it is cut down; they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
17. ¹⁷Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou hast made strong for thyself.
18. ¹⁸So will we not go back from thee. Revive us, and we will call upon thy name.
19. ¹⁹Restore us, O Jehovah, God of hosts; cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

Words in italics were supplied by the translators.

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