Psalms 80

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

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

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

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

2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy strength, and come to our deliverance.

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

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

3 OGod, restore us; and cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

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

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

4 Jehovah,God of hosts, how long will thine anger smoke against the prayer of thy people?

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

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

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

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

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.

6 Thou hast made us a strife unto our neighbours, and our enemies mock among themselves.

6Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors; And our enemies laugh among themselves.

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

7 Restore us, OGod of hosts; and cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

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

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.

8 Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt; thou didst cast out the nations, and plant it:

8Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt: Thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst it.

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

9 Thou preparedst space before it, and it took deep root, and filled the land;

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

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

10 The mountains were covered with its shadow, and the branches thereof were [like] cedars ofGod;

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

11 It sent out its boughs unto the sea, and its shoots unto the river.

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

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

12 Why hast thou broken down its fences, so that all who pass by the way do pluck it?

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

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

13 The boar out of the forest doth waste it, and the beast of the field doth feed off it.

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

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

14 OGod of hosts, return, we beseech thee; look down from the heavens, and behold, and visit this vine;

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

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

15 Even the stock which thy right hand hath planted, and the young plant thou madest strong for thyself.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

19(not in this translation)

19 Restore us, O Jehovah,God of hosts; cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

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