OEBcth - Psalms - 80

80:1  Listen, Shepherd of Israel, who leads Joseph like a flock of sheep; from your throne on the cherubs shine forth

80:2  before Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin. Stir up your mighty power, come to our help.

80:3  God, restore us: show us the light of your face, so we may be saved.

80:4  O Lord of hosts, how long is your anger to smoke, despite the prayer of your people?

80:5  You have fed them with bread of tears, you have made them drink tears by the measure.

80:6  The scorn of our neighbours you make us, the laughing-stock of our foes.

80:7  God of hosts, restore us: show us the light of your face, so we may be saved.

80:8  A vine out of Egypt you brought; you did drive out the nations, and plant her;

80:9  in the ground you did clear she struck root, and she filled all the land.

80:10  The shade of her covered the mountains, her branches the cedars of God.

80:11  She sent forth her shoots to the sea, and her branches as far as the River.

80:12  Why have you torn down her fences, and left her to be plucked at by all who pass by,

80:13  to be gnawed by the boar from the forest, and devoured by the beasts of the field?

80:14  O God of hosts, return: look down from heaven and see and visit this vine, and restore her

80:15  the vine which your right hand has planted.

80:16  She is burned with fire and cut down before your stern face they are perishing.

80:17  Support the one you have chosen, the one you have raised for yourself;

80:18  then from you we will never draw back. Preserve us, and we will call on your name.

80:19  Lord, God of hosts, restore us: Show us the light of your face, so we may be saved.