Psalm 80

¹Hear us, Shepherd of Israel,

you who lead Joseph like a flock,

you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.

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.

⁴LORD God of Hosts,

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 neighbours.

Our enemies laugh amongst themselves.

⁷Turn us again, God of Hosts.

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 Hosts.

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 burnt 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, LORD God of Hosts.

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