Psalm 80

For the choir director: A psalm of Asaph, to be sung to the tune “Lilies of the Covenant.”

¹Please listen, O Shepherd of Israel,

you who lead Joseph’s descendants like a flock.

O God, enthroned above the cherubim,

display your radiant glory

²to Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh.

Show us your mighty power.

Come to rescue us!

³Turn us again to yourself, O God.

Make your face shine down upon us.

Only then will we be saved.

⁴O Lord God of Heaven’s Armies,

how long will you be angry with our prayers?

⁵You have fed us with sorrow

and made us drink tears by the bucketful.

⁶You have made us the scorn^a of neighboring nations.

Our enemies treat us as a joke.

⁷Turn us again to yourself, O God of Heaven’s Armies.

Make your face shine down upon us.

Only then will we be saved.

⁸You brought us from Egypt like a grapevine;

you drove away the pagan nations and transplanted us into your land.

⁹You cleared the ground for us,

and we took root and filled the land.

¹⁰Our shade covered the mountains;

our branches covered the mighty cedars.

¹¹We spread our branches west to the Mediterranean Sea;

our shoots spread east to the Euphrates River.^b

¹²But now, why have you broken down our walls

so that all who pass by may steal our fruit?

¹³The wild boar from the forest devours it,

and the wild animals feed on it.

¹⁴Come back, we beg you, O God of Heaven’s Armies.

Look down from heaven and see our plight.

Take care of this grapevine

¹⁵that you yourself have planted,

this son you have raised for yourself.

¹⁶For we are chopped up and burned by our enemies.

May they perish at the sight of your frown.

¹⁷Strengthen the man you love,

the son of your choice.

¹⁸Then we will never abandon you again.

Revive us so we can call on your name once more.

¹⁹Turn us again to yourself, O Lord God of Heaven’s Armies.

Make your face shine down upon us.

Only then will we be saved.