Psalms 80
80
For the choir director: A psalm of Asaph, to be sung to the tune “Lilies of the Covenant.”
1Please listen, O Shepherd of Israel,
you who lead Joseph’s descendants like a flock.
O God, enthroned above the cherubim,
display your radiant glory
2to Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh.
Show us your mighty power.
Come to rescue us!
3Turn us again to yourself, O God.
Make your face shine down upon us.
Only then will we be saved.
4O Lord God of Heaven’s Armies,
how long will you be angry with our prayers?
5You have fed us with sorrow
and made us drink tears by the bucketful.
6You have made us the scorn#80:6 As in Syriac version; Hebrew reads the strife. of neighboring nations.
Our enemies treat us as a joke.
7Turn us again to yourself, O God of Heaven’s Armies.
Make your face shine down upon us.
Only then will we be saved.
8You brought us from Egypt like a grapevine;
you drove away the pagan nations and transplanted us into your land.
9You cleared the ground for us,
and we took root and filled the land.
10Our shade covered the mountains;
our branches covered the mighty cedars.
11We spread our branches west to the Mediterranean Sea;
our shoots spread east to the Euphrates River.#80:11 Hebrew west to the sea, . . . east to the river.
12But now, why have you broken down our walls
so that all who pass by may steal our fruit?
13The wild boar from the forest devours it,
and the wild animals feed on it.
14Come back, we beg you, O God of Heaven’s Armies.
Look down from heaven and see our plight.
Take care of this grapevine
15that you yourself have planted,
this son you have raised for yourself.
16For we are chopped up and burned by our enemies.
May they perish at the sight of your frown.
17Strengthen the man you love,
the son of your choice.
18Then we will never abandon you again.
Revive us so we can call on your name once more.
19Turn us again to yourself, O Lord God of Heaven’s Armies.
Make your face shine down upon us.
Only then will we be saved.
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Psalms 80
80
To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Testimony of Asaph. A Psalm.
1Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,
thou who leadest Joseph like a flock!
Thou who art enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth
2before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh!
Stir up thy might,
and come to save us!
3Restore us, O God;
let thy face shine, that we may be saved!
4O Lord God of hosts,
how long wilt thou be angry with thy people's prayers?
5Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears,
and given them tears to drink in full measure.
6Thou dost make us the scorn#80.6 Syr: Heb strife of our neighbors;
and our enemies laugh among themselves.
7Restore us, O God of hosts;
let thy face shine, that we may be saved!
8Thou didst bring a vine out of Egypt;
thou didst drive out the nations and plant it.
9Thou didst clear the ground for it;
it took deep root and filled the land.
10The mountains were covered with its shade,
the mighty cedars with its branches;
11it sent out its branches to the sea,
and its shoots to the River.
12Why then hast thou broken down its walls,
so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
13The boar from the forest ravages it,
and all that move in the field feed on it.
14Turn again, O God of hosts!
Look down from heaven, and see;
have regard for this vine,
15the stock which thy right hand planted.#80.15 Heb planted and upon the son whom thou hast reared for thyself
16They have burned it with fire, they have cut it down;
may they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance!
17But let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand,
the son of man whom thou hast made strong for thyself!
18Then we will never turn back from thee;
give us life, and we will call on thy name!
19Restore us, O Lord God of hosts!
let thy face shine, that we may be saved!
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