Psalm 80

¹ HEAR, O thou Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep * shew thyself also, thou that sittest upon the cherubims.

² Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses * stir up thy strength, and come, and help us.

³ Turn us again, O God * shew the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole.

⁴ O Lord God of hosts * how long wilt thou be angry with thy people that prayeth?

⁵ Thou feedest them with the bread of tears * and givest them plenteousness of tears to drink.

⁶ Thou hast made us a very strife unto our neighbours * and our enemies laugh us to scorn.

⁷ Turn us again, thou God of hosts * shew the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole.

⁸ Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt * thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

⁹ Thou madest room for it * and when it had taken root it filled the land.

¹⁰ The hills were covered with the shadow of it * and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedar-trees.

¹¹ She stretched out her branches unto the sea * and her boughs unto the river.

¹² Why hast thou then broken down her hedge * that all they that go by pluck off her grapes?

¹³ The wild boar out of the wood doth root it up * and the wild beasts of the field devour it.

¹⁴ Turn thee again, thou God of hosts, look down from heaven * behold, and visit this vine;

¹⁵ And the place of the vineyard that thy right hand hath planted * and the branch that thou madest so strong for thyself.

¹⁶ It is burnt with fire, and cut down * and they shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

¹⁷ Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand * and upon the son of man, whom thou madest so strong for thine own self.

¹⁸ And so will not we go back from thee * O let us live, and we shall call upon thy Name.

¹⁹ Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts * shew the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole.