Psalm 80

¹Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,

you who lead Joseph like a flock!

You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth

²before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh.

Stir up your might,

and come to save us!

³Restore us, O God;

let your face shine, that we may be saved.

⁴O Lord God of hosts,

how long will you be angry with your people’s prayers?

⁵You have fed them with the bread of tears,

and given them tears to drink in full measure.

⁶You make us the scorn of our neighbors;

our enemies laugh among themselves.

⁷Restore us, O God of hosts;

let your face shine, that we may 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 shade,

the mighty cedars with its branches;

¹¹it sent out its branches to the sea,

and its shoots to the River.

¹²Why then have you broken down its walls,

so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?

¹³The boar from the forest ravages it,

and all that move in the field feed on it.

¹⁴Turn again, O God of hosts;

look down from heaven, and see;

have regard for this vine,

¹⁵the stock that your right hand planted.

¹⁶They have burned it with fire, they have cut it down;

may they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.

¹⁷But let your hand be upon the one at your right hand,

the one whom you made strong for yourself.

¹⁸Then we will never turn back from you;

give us life, and we will call on your name.

¹⁹Restore us, O Lord God of hosts;

let your face shine, that we may be saved.