A Psalm of Asaph.
[80:1] Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth.
[80:2] Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might and come to save us!
[80:3] Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved!
[80:4] O Lord God of hosts, how long will you be angry with your people’s prayers?
[80:5] You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in full measure.
[80:6] You make us an object of contention for our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves.
[80:7] Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved!
[80:8] You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.
[80:9] You cleared the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land.
[80:10] The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches.
[80:11] It sent out its branches to the sea and its shoots to the River.
[80:12] Why then have you broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
[80:13] The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it.
[80:14] Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine,
[80:15] the stock that your right hand planted, and for the son whom you made strong for yourself.
[80:16] They have burned it with fire; they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of your face!
[80:17] But let your hand be on the man of your right hand, the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself!
[80:18] Then we shall not turn back from you; give us life, and we will call upon your name!
[80:19] Restore us, O Lord God of hosts! Let your face shine, that we may be saved!