Psalms80

¹To the choirmaster : according to Lilies . A Testimony . Of Asaph , a Psalm . Give ear , O Shepherd of Israel , you who lead Joseph like a flock . You who are enthroned upon the cherubim , shine forth .

²Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh , stir up your might and come to save us!

³Restore us, O God ; let your face shine , that we may be saved !

⁴O Lord God of hosts , how long will you be angry with your people’s prayers ?

⁵You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in full measure .

⁶You make us an object of contention for our neighbors , and our enemies laugh among themselves.

⁷Restore us, O God of hosts ; let your face shine , that we may be saved !

⁸You brought a vine out of Egypt ; you drove out the nations and planted it.

⁹You 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 .

¹²Why then have you 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 that your right hand planted , and for the son whom you made strong for yourself.

¹⁶They have burned it with fire ; they have cut it down ; may they perish at the rebuke of your face !

¹⁷But let your hand be on the man of your right hand , the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself!

¹⁸Then we shall not turn back from you; give us life , and we will call upon your name !

¹⁹Restore us, O Lord God of hosts ! Let your face shine , that we may be saved !