80
Psalm 80
Prayer for Israel’s Restoration
To the leader: on Lilies, a Covenant. Of Asaph. A Psalm.
1 #
Ps 23.1; 77.20; 99.1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,
you who lead Joseph like a flock!
You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth
2 #
Ps 35.23
before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh.
Stir up your might,
and come to save us!
3 #
Num 6.25; Lam 5.21 Restore us, O God;
let your face shine, that we may be saved.
4 #
Ps 85.5
O Lord God of hosts,
how long will you be angry with your people’s prayers?
5 #
Ps 42.3; 102.9 You have fed them with the bread of tears
and given them tears to drink in full measure.
6 #
Ps 44.13; 79.4 You make us the scorn#80.6 Syr: Heb strife of our neighbors;
our enemies laugh among themselves.
7Restore us, O God of hosts;
let your face shine, that we may be saved.
8 #
Ps 44.2; Isa 5.1, 7; Jer 2.21; Ezek 15.6 You brought a vine out of Egypt;
you drove out the nations and planted it.
9 #
Hos 14.5
You cleared 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.
12 #
Ps 89.40; Nah 2.2 Why then have you broken down its walls,
so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
13 #
Jer 5.6
The boar from the forest ravages it,
and all that move in the field feed on it.
14 #
Isa 63.15
Turn again, O God of hosts;
look down from heaven and see;
have regard for this vine,
15the stock that your right hand planted.#80.15 Heb adds from 80.17 and upon the one whom you made strong for yourself
16 #
Ps 39.11; 76.6 It has been burned with fire; it has been cut down;
may they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.
17 #
Ps 89.21
But let your hand be upon the one at your right hand,
the one whom you made strong for yourself.
18 #
Ps 71.20; Isa 50.5 Then we will never turn back from you;
give us life, and we will call on your name.
19Restore us, O Lord God of hosts;
let your face shine, that we may be saved.