Psalms80

¹ Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; Thou that sittest above 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 Jehovah 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 neighbors; 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 It sent out its branches unto the sea, And its shoots unto the River.

¹² Why hast thou broken down its walls, So that all they that pass by the way do pluck it?

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 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 Jehovah God of hosts; Cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.