Psalms, 80

To the director upon The Lilies.^*1 A reminder.^*2 Of Aʹsaph. A melody.

¹ O Shepherd of Israel, do give ear, You who are conducting Joseph just like a flock. O you who are sitting upon the cherubs, do beam forth.

² Before Eʹphra·im and Benjamin and Ma·nasʹseh do rouse up your mightiness, And do come to our salvation.

³ O God, bring us back; And light up your face, that we may be saved.

⁴ O Jehovah God of armies, how long must you fume against the prayer of your people?

⁵ You have made them eat the bread of tears, And you keep making them drink tears upon tears in [great] measure.^*1

⁶ You set us for strife to our neighbors, And our very enemies keep deriding as they please.

⁷ O God of armies,^*1 bring us back; And light up your face, that we may be saved.

⁸ You proceeded to make a vine depart from Egypt. You kept driving out the nations, that you might plant it.

⁹ You made a clearing before it, that it might take root and fill the land.

¹⁰ The mountains were covered with its shadow, And the cedars of God with its boughs.

¹¹ It gradually sent forth its boughs as far as the sea, And to the River^*1 its twigs.

¹² Why have you broken down its stone walls, And [why] have all those passing by on the road plucked at it?

¹³ A boar out of the woods^*1 keeps eating it away, And the animal throngs of the open field keep feeding upon it.

¹⁴ O God of armies,^*1 return,^*2 please; Look down from heaven and see and take care of this vine,

¹⁵ And the stock^*1 that your right hand has planted, And [look] upon the son^*2 whom you have made strong for yourself.

¹⁶ It is burned with fire, cut off. From the rebuke of your face they perish.

¹⁷ Let your hand prove to be upon the man^*1 of your right hand, Upon the son of mankind^*2 whom you have made strong for yourself,

¹⁸ And we shall not turn back from you. May you preserve us alive, that we may call upon your own name.

¹⁹ O Jehovah God of armies,^*1 bring us back; Light up your face, that we may be saved.