Psalms 80

¹Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.

²Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.

³Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

⁴O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

⁵Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

⁶Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

⁷Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

⁸Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

⁹Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

¹⁰The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.

¹¹She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.

¹²Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

¹³The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.

¹⁴Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;

¹⁵And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.

¹⁶It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

¹⁷Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.

¹⁸So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.

¹⁹Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

Psalms 80

¹Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for Asaph himself.

²Rejoice to God our helper: sing aloud to the God of Jacob.

³Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery with the harp.

⁴Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, on the noted day of your solemnity.

⁵For it is a commandment in Israel, and a judgment to the God of Jacob.

⁶He ordained it for a testimony in Joseph, when he came out of the land of Egypt: he heard a tongue which he knew not.

⁷He removed his back from the burdens: his hands had served in baskets.

⁸Thou calledst upon me in affliction, and I delivered thee: I heard thee in the secret place of tempest: I proved thee at the waters of contradiction.

⁹Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me,

¹⁰there shall be no new god in thee: neither shalt thou adore a strange god.

¹¹For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

¹²But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me.

¹³So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions.

¹⁴If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways:

¹⁵I should soon have humbled their enemies, and laid my hand on them that troubled them.

¹⁶The enemies of the Lord have lied to him: and their time shall be for ever.

¹⁷And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey out of the rock.