Chapter 80

For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” A Psalm by Asaph.

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.

⁴Yahweh God of Armies,

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 Armies.

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 Armies.

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, Yahweh God of Armies.

Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.