80Psalms 80

1Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you that lead Joseph like a flock; you that dwell between the cherubim, shine forth.Select Psalms 80:1

2Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up your strength, and come and save us.Select Psalms 80:2

3Turn us again, O God, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved.Select Psalms 80:3

4O LORD God of hosts, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?Select Psalms 80:4

5You feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink in great measure.Select Psalms 80:5

6You make us a strife to our neighbors: and our enemies laugh among themselves.Select Psalms 80:6

7Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved.Select Psalms 80:7

8You have brought a vine out of Egypt: you have cast out the heathen, and planted it.Select Psalms 80:8

9You prepared room before it, and did cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.Select Psalms 80:9

10The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.Select Psalms 80:10

11She sent out her boughs to the sea, and her branches to the river.Select Psalms 80:11

12Why have you then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?Select Psalms 80:12

13The boar out of the wood does waste it, and the wild beast of the field does devour it.Select Psalms 80:13

14Return, we beseech you, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;Select Psalms 80:14

15And the vineyard which your right hand has planted, and the branch that you made strong for yourself.Select Psalms 80:15

16It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.Select Psalms 80:16

17Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.Select Psalms 80:17

18So will not we go back from you: quicken us, and we will call on your name.Select Psalms 80:18

19Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved.Select Psalms 80:19