Psalms 80

1To the Overseer. --`On the Lilies.' A testimony of Asaph. --A Psalm. Shepherd of Israel, give ear, Leading Joseph as a flock, Inhabiting the cherubs--shine forth,

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

2Before Ephraim, and Benjamin, and Manasseh, Wake up Thy might, and come for our salvation.

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

3O God, cause us to turn back, And cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved.

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

4Jehovah, God of Hosts, till when? Thou hast burned against the prayer of Thy people.

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

5Thou hast caused them to eat bread of tears, And causest them to drink With tears a third time.

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

6Thou makest us a strife to our neighbours, And our enemies mock at it.

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.

7God of Hosts, turn us back, And cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved.

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

8A vine out of Egypt Thou dost bring, Thou dost cast out nations, and plantest it.

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.

9Thou hast looked before it, and dost root it, And it filleth the land,

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

10Covered have been hills <FI>with<Fi> its shadow, And its boughs <FI>are<Fi> cedars of God.

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

11It sendeth forth its branches unto the sea, And unto the river its sucklings.

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.

12Why hast Thou broken down its hedges, And all passing by the way have plucked it?

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

13A boar out of the forest doth waste it, And a wild beast of the fields consumeth it.

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

14God of Hosts, turn back, we beseech Thee, Look from heaven, and see, and inspect this vine,

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

15And the root that Thy right hand planted, And the branch Thou madest strong for Thee,

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

16Burnt with fire--cut down, From the rebuke of Thy face they perish.

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

17Let Thy hand be on the man of Thy right hand, On the son of man Thou hast strengthened for Thyself.

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

18And we do not go back from Thee, Thou dost revive us, and in Thy name we call.

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19O Jehovah, God of Hosts, turn us back, Cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved!

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