Psalms 80

¹Give ear, O Keeper of Israel, guiding Joseph like a flock; you who have your seat on the winged ones, let your glory be seen.

²Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, let your strength be awake from sleep, and come as our salvation.

³Take us back again, O God; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.

⁴O Lord God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your people?

⁵You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.

⁶You make us a cause of war among our neighbours; our haters are laughing at us among themselves.

⁷Take us back again, O God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.

⁸You took a vine out of Egypt: driving out the nations, and planting it in their land.

⁹You made ready a place for it, so that it might take deep root, and it sent out its branches over all the land.

¹⁰The mountains were covered with its shade, and the great trees with its branches.

¹¹It sent out its arms to the Sea, and its branches to the River.

¹²Why are its walls broken down by your hands, so that all who go by may take its fruit?

¹³It is uprooted by the pigs from the woods, the beasts of the field get their food from it.

¹⁴Come back, O God of armies: from heaven let your eyes be turned to this vine, and give your mind to it,

¹⁵Even to the tree which was planted by your right hand, and to the branch which you made strong for yourself.

¹⁶It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face.

¹⁷Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.

¹⁸So will we not be turned back from you; keep us in life, and we will give praise to your name.

¹⁹Take us back, O Lord God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.

¹Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine forth.

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

³Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

⁴Lord God of Hosts, How long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

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

⁶You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.

⁷Turn us again, God of Hosts. Cause your face to shine, and we will 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 shadow. Its boughs were like God's cedars.

¹¹It sent out its branches to the sea, Its shoots to the River.

¹²Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?

¹³The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.

¹⁴Turn again, we beg you, God of Hosts. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,

¹⁵the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself.

¹⁶It's burned with fire. It's cut down. They perish at your rebuke.

¹⁷Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.

¹⁸So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.

¹⁹Turn us again, Lord God of Hosts. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.