Psalm 80

¹ For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim Eduth. A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that sittest upon the cherubim, shine forth.

² Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy might, and come to save us.

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

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

⁵ Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

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

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

⁸ Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt: thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst it.

⁹ Thou preparedst room before it, and it took deep root, and filled the land.

¹⁰ The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like cedars of God.

¹¹ She sent out her branches unto the sea, and her shoots unto the River.

¹² Why hast thou broken down her fences, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

¹³ The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, and the wild beasts of the field feed on it.

¹⁴ Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine,

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

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

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

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

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