Psalms 80

1Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; Thou that sittest `above' the cherubim, shine forth.● 2Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy might, And come to save us.● 3Turn us again, O God; And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.● 4O Jehovah God of hosts, How long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?● 5Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure.● 6Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors; And our enemies laugh among themselves.● 7Turn us again, O God of hosts; And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.● 8Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt: Thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst it.● 9Thou preparedst `room' before it, And it took deep root, and filled the land.● 10The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were `like' cedars of God.● 11It sent out its branches unto the sea, And its shoots unto the River.● 12Why hast thou broken down its walls, So that all they that pass by the way do pluck it?● 13The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, And the wild beasts of the field feed on it.● 14Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: Look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine,● 15And the stock which thy right hand planted, And the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.● 16It is burned with fire, it is cut down: They perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.● 17Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, Upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.● 18So shall we not go back from thee: Quicken thou us, and we will call upon thy name.● 19Turn us again, O Jehovah God of hosts; Cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved. Psalm 81 For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. `A Psalm' of Asaph.●