Psalm 80, side by side

¹For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” A Psalm of Asaph. Hear us, O Shepherd of Israel, who leads Joseph like a flock; You who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth

¹Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.

²before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Rally Your mighty power and come to save us.

²Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.

³Restore us, O God, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.

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

⁴O LORD God of Hosts, how long will Your anger smolder against the prayers of Your people?

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

⁵You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.

⁵Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

⁶You make us contend with our neighbors; our enemies mock us.

⁶Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

⁷Restore us, O God of Hosts, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.

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

⁸You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.

⁸Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

⁹You cleared the ground for it, and it took root and filled the land.

⁹Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

¹⁰The mountains were covered by its shade, and the mighty cedars with its branches.

¹⁰The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.

¹¹It sent out its branches to the Sea, and its shoots toward the River.

¹¹She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.

¹²Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?

¹²Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

¹³The boar from the forest ravages it, and the creatures of the field feed upon it.

¹³The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.

¹⁴Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine—

¹⁴Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;

¹⁵the root Your right hand has planted, the son You have raised up for Yourself.

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

¹⁶Your vine has been cut down and burned; they perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.

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

¹⁷Let Your hand be upon the man at Your right hand, on the son of man You have raised up for Yourself.

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

¹⁸Then we will not turn away from You; revive us, and we will call on Your name.

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

¹⁹Restore us, O LORD God of Hosts; cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.

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