Psalm 80

Revised Geneva Translation

80 Hear, O You Shepherd of Israel, You Who leads Joseph like sheep. Show Your brightness, You Who sits between the Cherubims.

² Stir up Your strength before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh and come to help us.

³ Turn us again, O God, and cause Your face to shine, so that we may be saved.

⁴ O LORD God of Hosts, how long will You be angry against the prayer of Your people?

⁵ You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink with great measure.

⁶ You have made us a point of contention to our neighbors; and our enemies laugh at us among themselves.

⁷ Turn us again, O God of Hosts. Cause Your face to shine, and we shall be saved.

⁸ You have brought a vine out of Egypt. You have cast out the heathen and planted it.

⁹ You made room for it, and caused it to take root, and it filled the land.

¹⁰ The mountains were covered with the shadow of it; and the boughs thereof were like the pleasant cedars.

¹¹ She stretched out her branches to the sea, and her boughs to the river.

¹² Why have You broken down her hedges, so that all those who pass by the way have plucked her?

¹³ The wild boar, out of the wood, has destroyed it; and the wild beasts of the field have eaten it up.

¹⁴ Return, we beg You, O God of Hosts! Look down from Heaven and behold, and visit this vine

¹⁵ and the vineyard that Your right hand has planted, and the young vine which You made strong for Yourself.

¹⁶ It is burnt with fire and cut down. They perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.

¹⁷ Let Your hand be upon the man of Your right hand, and upon the son of man whom You made strong for Your own self,

¹⁸ so we will not go back from You. Revive us, and we shall call upon Your Name.

¹⁹ Turn us again, O LORD God of Hosts! Cause Your face to shine, and we shall be saved. To him who excels upon Gittith: A Psalm committed to Asaph