Psalms 80

God implored to rescue his people from their calamities.

For the Chief Musician; set to That is, Lilies, a testimony . Shoshannim Eduth. A Psalm of Asaph.

¹Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; Thou that sittest [above] the cherubim, shine forth.

²Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy might, And come to save us.

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

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

⁵Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure.

⁶Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors; 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 broughtest a vine out of Egypt: Thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst it.

⁹Thou preparedst [room] before it, And it took deep root, and filled the land.

¹⁰The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were [like] cedars of God.

¹¹It sent out its branches unto the sea, And its shoots unto the River.

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

¹³The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, And the wild beasts of the field feed on it.

¹⁴Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: Look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine,

¹⁵And the stock which thy right hand 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 shall we not go back from thee: Quicken thou us, and we will call upon thy name.

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

Psalms 80 (ASV)

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